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‘We reject the forced displacement’ in Gaza: Abbas tells Blinken in Jordan

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [Thaer Ghanaim/PPO/AFP]

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he “rejects the forced displacement” of Palestinians from Gaza, following Israel’s order for all of the enclave’s civilians to move to the south.

Abbas said at Friday’s meeting in Jordan’s capital Amman that such an event would constitute a “second Nakba”, referring to the mass displacement of Palestinians in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

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