Earlier this month, the president said he favored taking control of Gaza and displacing the Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave. But Egypt and Jordan flatly rejected cooperating.

Jordan's King Abdullah left hospital on Tuesday after undergoing minor surgery, the royal palace said. The 63-year-old monarch was admitted earlier in the day for an incisional hernia at the country's King Hussein Medical City.

For decades, American officials described the rulers of Egypt and Jordan as linchpins of regional stability. They made peace with Israel (in 1979 and 1994, respectively). They mostly avoided wars, coups and revolutions.

Arab countries were dismayed earlier this month after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a plan to "clean out" Palestinians from Gaza and resettle most of them in Jordan and Egypt, an idea immediately rejected by Cairo and Amman and seen in most of the region as deeply destabilising.

I wish we died in Gaza instead.” As President Trump proposes forcibly relocating as many as 2 million Palestinians from Gaza Strip into ramshackle camps like this one, many of the some 35,000 refugees in Jerash have a message for their brethren.

Jordan's King Abdullah will undergo minor surgery on Tuesday, the royal palace said in a statement. The 63-year-old monarch will be treated for an incisional hernia at the country's King Hussein Medical City.

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Jordan's King Abdullah discussed on Wednesday "dangerous developments" in Gaza and the West Bank during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a post on X by the Jordanian royal court.

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