The Egyptian Embassy in Washington reiterated, on Sunday evening, Cairo's rejection of the displacement of Palestinians to the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula.

This came hours after US President Donald Trump called on Egypt and Jordan to receive Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

In a post on Facebook, the embassy quoted the title of an article by the Egyptian Ambassador to Washington, Moataz Zahran, published in the American newspaper The Hill on October 20, 2023.

"Egypt cannot be part of any solution that includes transferring Palestinians to Sinai," the embassy said. Opinion article by Ambassador Moataz Zahran published in The Hill.

The embassy was satisfied with this title in its publication, which it attached with a link to the article on the newspaper’s website.

The article was published on the 13th day of a genocidal war waged by Israel, with US support, against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.

Zahran said in his article: “There are voices calling on Egypt to open its borders and allow Palestinian refugees to seek safe haven in Sinai.”

He added: "Egypt's position is clear: it cannot be part of any solution that includes transferring Palestinians to Sinai."

Zahran stressed that "such a move would lead to a second Nakba, an unimaginable tragedy for a steadfast people (the Palestinians) who have an inseparable bond with the land of their ancestors."

The Nakba refers to the seizure of Palestinian lands by armed Zionist gangs, the displacement of about 700,000 Palestinians, and the establishment of the State of Israel on these lands in 1948.

The Egyptian embassy's post is the first official Egyptian response to Trump's call.

On Saturday, Trump called for the displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to neighboring countries such as Egypt and Jordan, claiming that “there are no suitable places to live in the Gaza Strip” as a result of the Israeli genocide.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi confirmed, on Sunday, his country's rejection of any attempt to displace Palestinians.

Al-Safadi said, "Our constants are clear, and the stability of the Palestinians on their land is a Jordanian constant that has not and will not change."

He stressed that "the solution to the Palestinian issue is in Palestine, Jordan is for Jordanians, and Palestine is for Palestinians."

The Israeli war of extermination on Gaza left about 159 thousand Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14 thousand missing, amidst massive destruction and deadly famine.

On November 21, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.

On January 19, a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel began to be implemented, with the mediation of Qatar and Egypt and the support of the United States.

The first phase of the agreement is scheduled to last for 42 days, during which negotiations will take place to begin a second and then a third phase, leading to the end of the Israeli genocide and the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza.

Israel has turned Gaza into the world's largest prison, besieging it for the 18th year, and the war of extermination has forced about two million of its citizens, numbering about 2.3 million Palestinians, to flee in tragic conditions with a deliberate severe shortage of food, water and medicine.

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.