Mogadishu (Kaab TV) – Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has rejected any suggestion that Palestinians could be resettled in Somaliland, warning that such a move would strip them of their fundamental rights.
Speaking in Las Anod during the inauguration of the newly formed North East State administration, President Mohamud said Palestinians have endured decades of conflict without abandoning their land and should not be turned into what he described as “stateless people.”
“For 70 years they have been shelled daily, artillery has been fired, yet they have not been displaced,” Mohamud said. “Are we now going to make it easy for them to be pushed off their land?”
He referred to the killing of children and civilians and the destruction of homes and cities, saying the devastation now resembles “the Day of Judgment.”
“There are people in the world known as stateless people,” he said. “They are alive, they are allowed to eat and drink to survive, but they have no rights, no sense of belonging. We do not agree for the Palestinian people to become stateless.”
Mohamud stressed that Palestinians cannot be relocated in any manner that deprives them of their political rights or land ownership, adding that Somalia would never accept such an outcome.
“Killing two birds with one stone is not possible,” he said. “We reject this.”