The letter was signed by the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, as well as Palestinian presidential adviser Hussein al-Sheikh.

Powerful Arab nations have rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Tuesday radically rejected the suggestion, aired last month by US President Donald Trump, to deport a large part of Gaza's population to Egypt and Jordan. (Camera: ERDEM SAHIN.

Trump said he would urge the leaders of both Egypt and Jordan, to accept the idea, saying the resettlement could be temporary or long term.

Five Arab foreign ministers and a senior Palestinian official have expressed their opposition to displacing Palestinians from Gaza, as suggested by President Donald Trump in late January. They stated this in a joint letter sent to the US Secretary of State,

A decadeslong history of violent conflict is among the reasons that countries in the region are opposed to providing a haven for the war-weary Gazans.

Several Arab nations as well as the Arab League pushed back on a suggestion by US President Donald Trump that Palestinians in Gaza should be relocated en masse to Egypt and Jordan.

Trump's proposal to "clean out" Gaza and transfer Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan has been formally rejected by a group of Arab nations and representatives.

President Trump has suggested that Gazans should be evacuated from the devastated enclave and taken in by Jordan and Egypt.