Sudan rejects Palestinian resettlement proposals

Sudanese officials have rejected a request from the US to discuss taking in Palestinians displaced from Gaza under Donald Trump’s plan to turn the territory into a “Riviera on the Mediterranean”.

- Jason Burke and Mark Townsend

According to an Associated Press report, officials in Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland were contacted by the US and Israel, suggesting both countries are determined to press ahead with the proposal despite international outrage - or force others in the region to come up with their own ideas for the enclave when hostilities end.

Officials in Sudan confirmed the report but said the government rejected the idea. “This suggestion was immediately rebuffed,” said one official. Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, Somalia’s foreign minister, said any plan that used its territory for the resettlement of other populations or undermined the Palestinian people’s right to live peacefully on their ancestral land would be rejected.