Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Monday denied reports that his country is holding talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on taking in 100,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
"I haven’t heard something so fake in quite some time — and there’s been a lot of fake news lately," Rama said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"It is absolutely not true. Full respect and solidarity for the people of Gaza, who have been dehumanized by the savage Hamas regime and have endured a hellish war following the medieval horrors of October 7.
"But let me be clear: Albania has not been asked by anyone, nor can we even consider to take on any such responsibility. We are proud of our strong friendships with Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and, of course, the Palestinian people, whose state Albania recognized a very long time ago."
Israeli journalist Amit Segal on X claimed that the Trump administration was in talks to resettle some 100,000 Gazans to Albania because "Egypt and Jordan will refuse to host refugees."
Rama said Albania "is not in the Middle East itself, and from the heart of Europe, we cannot do more than any other European country in such a matter.
"Yet, we wish and pray that the Palestinian people are given the chance to live in their own state, as free people under democratic rule, and that Hamas will never again be able to harm Israel — or, first and foremost, the Palestinians themselves."
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