Meanwhile, on Jan. 27, United States (U.S.) President Donald Trump doubled down on his proposal to relocate over a million Palestinians from Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, The Wall Street Journal reported. Such a relocation would be a break with decades of U.S. foreign policy emphasising a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.

Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.

Thousands of people demonstrated at the Rafah border crossing on Friday, an eyewitness told Reuters, in a rare state-sanctioned protest against a proposal earlier this week by U.S. President Donald Trump for Egypt and Jordan to accept Gazan refugees.

Thousands of Egyptians on Friday gathered near the border with the Gaza Strip in a protest against US President Donald Trump's call for resettling Palestinian survivors in the war-devastated enclave in Arab countries,

US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Egypt and Jordan take in Palestinians from the Gaza Strip has been firmly rejected by leaders of both countries. The proposal was also strongly denounced by both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.

US President Donald Trump insisted Thursday that Egypt and Jordan would take in displaced Gazans, despite the two Arab nations dismissing his plan to move Palestinians from the territory. After an Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect on January 19,