Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi rejected on Wednesday any plans for Palestinian displacement, hours after Israel's defence minister said the army would "finish the job" in Gaza and remove Palestinians.
During a visit by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Sisi "reiterated Egypt's firm stance against the displacement of the Palestinian people or any attempt to annihilate the Palestinian cause".
Egypt shares the only land border with Gaza that is not controlled by Israel, and has since 2023 rejected plans to displace the territory's more than two million people into the Sinai peninsula.
Last year, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Cairo had turned down multiple offers to forgive parts of its massive foreign debt bill in exchange for allowing mass displacement into its territory.
Resuming genocidal war on Gaza
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday said it was only a matter of time before Israel resumes its genocidal war in Gaza, "to finish the job so that we can also implement the migration plan".
He said earlier this month that Israel was ready to remove Palestinians from Gaza by sea and land but was waiting for the United States, which he said was discussing where the two million people would go.
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has denied any plan to "displace people out of Gaza against their will".
Nearly all of Gaza's population has been internally displaced and most of the territory lies in rubble after three years of war that has killed more than 73,700 Palestinians.
The health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said the death toll from Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023, has reached nearly 74,000, with more than 174,000 people injured.
