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US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians uprooted from Gaza

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The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for resettling Palestinians from Gaza .

The contacts with Sudan , Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland reflect a plan that has been widely condemned and raised serious legal and moral issues.

Because all three places are poor, and in some cases wracked by violence, the proposal also casts doubt on Trump ’s stated goal of resettlers in a “beautiful area.

Somaliland seceded from Somalia over 30 years ago , but it is not internationally recognized as an independent state.

Somali military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan told an Arab leaders’ summit last week that his country “categorically rejects" any plan that aims to transfer "the brotherly Palestinians from their land under whatever justification or name".