President Trump’s plan would send a huge number of refugees to Jordan, adding new frictions to the kingdom’s often tense, sometimes violent history with displaced Palestinians.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he would take in 2,000 Palestinian children from Gaza who are very sick or suffering from cancer, signaling new openness to a plan by President Donald Trump to drive a deal that would resettle the residents of the war-torn strip.

King Abdullah II of Jordan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi are forming a united front to oppose the White House’s plans for reconstructing the Gaza Strip. The world leaders simultaneously issued statements expressing their disapproval of President Donald Trump‘s proposal on Wednesday after a bilateral phone call that “covered the importance of maintaining the