Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday warned against trying to push Palestinian refugees into Egypt or Jordan, adding that the humanitarian situation must to be dealt with inside Gaza and the West Bank.
“That is a red line, because I think that is the plan by certain of the usual suspects to try and create de facto issues on the ground. No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt,” King Abdullah said at a news conference following a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.
Meanwhile, the UN’s World Food Programme said the situation in the Gaza Strip was worsening by the minute with only four or five days of food stocks left in the shops.
“Inside the shops, the stocks are getting close to less than a few days, maybe four or five days of food stocks left,” WFP’s Middle East spokeswoman Abeer Etefa, told reporters in Geneva via video-link from Cairo.
The Israeli military said on October 14 that Gaza City residents must not “delay” their departure before an expected ground offensive starts, as people leaving the north of the territory again jammed roads south.
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Israel has designated two “safe routes” for more than one million residents of northern Gaza to leave for the south of the blockaded territory.
Thousands of Gazans packed buses, cars and donkey carts again on Saturday to escape the northern zone, where the bulk of Israeli air and artillery strikes have occurred.
