Hussein Majali: Uprooting Palestinians equals genocide

Forcibly displacing Palestinians from Gaza violates all laws and is “as bad as genocide,” says former Jordanian Interior Minister Hussein Majali.

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00:00But the Jordanian position that His Majesty holds on behalf of Jordan and the Arab community as a whole,

00:07that there is no possible way at all to accept any Palestinian that has been uprooted from Gaza

00:23or the West Bank to any Arab country, let alone Jordan.

00:31The question is not accepting or not accepting. The question is uprooting people of their own

00:39country, of their own soil. This is unheard of. There are no international conventions,

00:45no international law that allows that. There is nothing, no United Nations agreement

00:57accepts such a thing. This is as bad as genocide.