Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa condemned on Tuesday the call to displace the Palestinian people from their land, considering it a "disgrace against humanity" and a "threat to the entire Arab nation".
This came in his speech before the emergency Arab summit in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, dedicated to discussing developments in the Palestinian issue, especially in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Sharaa said: "The call to forcibly displace the Palestinian people from their land is a disgrace against humanity".
He added: "We in Syria consider this call (to displace the Palestinians) a threat not only to the Palestinian people, but to the entire Arab nation, because it touches on the essence of the Palestinian issue".
Since January 25, US President Donald Trump has been promoting a plan to displace the Palestinians of Gaza to neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan, which the two countries rejected, and other Arab countries and regional and international organizations joined them.
Al-Sharaa stressed that "the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their land is unacceptable," considering that "the time has come for us all as Arabs to stand against these plans."
The Syrian president called for "the Arab countries to unite in their positions and assume their responsibilities towards the Palestinian people."
Al-Sharaa added that "the Syrian people will always stand by their Palestinian brothers in their struggle to obtain their rights."
In his speech at the summit, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced a plan prepared by his country to rebuild Gaza without displacing Palestinians from it, calling on the summit to adopt it.
He also called for directing support to a fund that will be established to implement this plan, and to mobilize international and regional support for it, announcing the holding of an international conference to rebuild Gaza next April.
Regarding the Israeli attacks on his country, Al-Sharaa indicated that "Israel has not stopped violating the rights of our people since its occupation of the Syrian Golan in 1967."
Al-Sharaa continued: "We are committed to the 1974 disengagement agreement (with Israel), and it is unacceptable for the Israeli side to continue ignoring this agreement."
The head of the transitional phase is participating for the first time in an Arab summit since he assumed his duties in January, after Syrian factions overthrew the regime of President Bashar al-Assad on December 8, 2024.
Israel exploited the events of Bashar al-Assad's overthrow and expanded its occupation of the Golan Heights, and announced the collapse of the 1974 agreement and occupied the Syrian buffer zone, and destroyed equipment, combat means and ammunition of the Syrian army through hundreds of airstrikes.
For decades, Israel has occupied lands in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and refuses to withdraw from them and establish an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on the borders before the 1967 war.
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