Trump Plans to Cancel Palestinian Refugees’ Right to Return to Occupied Territories

Washington is set to announce that it will no longer recognize millions of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, the occupation media reports.

According to Israel’s Hadashot News on Saturday, the administration of US President Donald Trump will make the announcement over the next few days, in which it will claim that only around one million Palestinians are eligible for refugee status.

The claim will contradict UN statistics which classify over five million Palestinians as refugees.

 Earlier this month, the American magazine Foreign Policy obtained emails written by Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, to senior US officials in which he pressured Jordan to remove the refugee status of millions of Palestinians in a bid to disrupt UNRWA’s work.

Washington has on multiple occasions voiced opposition over treating the descendants of Palestinian refugees as refugees themselves.

In January, the US government announced that it would withhold $65 million of a $125 million aid installment to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

On Friday, the United States also canceled over $200 million in funds for the Palestinian Authority.

‘Trump serving Israel’s interests, not America’s’

Commenting on the US anti-Palestinian policies, Max Igan, a radio host and political commentator, told Press TV on Sunday that US President Donald Trump is doing the bidding of the Israeli regime rather than serving American interests.

All of Trump’s actions were meant to support Israel, he said.

“He is not working for the United States, he is working for Israel,” and he “does not care about the Palestinians,” Igan said.

“Donald Trump is just putting all these policies in place to squeeze the Palestinians out altogether and just write them off the books,” he added.

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