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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Egyptian proposal to resettle Palestinian refugees in a large tract of land in the Sinai Peninsula to be annexed to the Gaza Strip.
Speaking to a gathering of his Fatah party in Ramallah Sunday, Abbas said that an unnamed senior Egyptian official recently approached him and suggested settling Palestinians in an area 1,600 square kilometers (618 square miles) large adjacent to Gaza, reviving an idea originally proposed by former Israeli national security adviser Giora Eiland.
They [the Egyptians] are prepared to receive all the refugees, [saying] lets end the refugee story, Abbas was quoted by Maan news agency as saying.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-rejects-egyptian-offer-to-settle-refugees-in-sinai/