Earlier this month, the president said he favored taking control of Gaza and displacing the Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave. But Egypt and Jordan flatly rejected cooperating.

Jordan's King Abdullah will undergo minor surgery on Tuesday, the royal palace said in a statement. The 63-year-old monarch will be treated for an incisional hernia at the country's King Hussein Medical City.

Arab countries were dismayed earlier this month after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a plan to "clean out" Palestinians from Gaza and resettle most of them in Jordan and Egypt, an idea immediately rejected by Cairo and Amman and seen in most of the region as deeply destabilising.

Jordan's King Abdullah and Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa agreed on Wednesday to work together to secure their common border against arms and drug trafficking, officials said. At a meeting with Sharaa in Amman,

I wish we died in Gaza instead.” As President Trump proposes forcibly relocating as many as 2 million Palestinians from Gaza Strip into ramshackle camps like this one, many of the some 35,000 refugees in Jerash have a message for their brethren.

Despite Donald Trump continuing to push for the forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, he is facing significant pushback from allies and states in the region.

Jordan's King Abdullah left hospital on Tuesday after undergoing minor surgery, the royal palace said. The 63-year-old monarch was admitted earlier in the day for an incisional hernia at the country's King Hussein Medical City.

Syrian transitional leader Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit Jordan on Wednesday and meet King Abdullah to discuss boosting ties between the neighbouring countries, two Jordanian officials said. The visit is the new interim leader's third foreign trip along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey since he came to power after leading a decisive rebel offensive which ousted long-time Iran-backed Bashar al Assad.

For decades, American officials described the rulers of Egypt and Jordan as linchpins of regional stability. They made peace with Israel (in 1979 and 1994, respectively). They mostly avoided wars, coups and revolutions.

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Jordan's King Abdullah discussed on Wednesday "dangerous developments" in Gaza and the West Bank during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a post on X by the Jordanian royal court.