Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the administration is talking to many countries to host Gazan, who was forced into war, including South Sudan, where vice minister Shahren Haskell last month.
The African nation has called the conference “highest level of engagement” and has previously called it an Israeli official.
But Juba, who suffers from a worrying increase in violence in itself, has denied reports that Palestinians are needed.
On Thursday, Bilateral Relations Director Philip Jada Natana confirmed that the memorandum had been signed with Israel. However, he revealed that it was primarily intended to “develop agricultural capabilities, investment and mining.”
“There was no talk of resetting Palestinians in South Sudan,” he told reporters.
During a weekly briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Apuk Ayuel Mayen also revealed that there are no deals with Washington for immigrants in third countries.
“There’s no discussion about it, there’s no signed deal,” she said. She emphasized that the recent deportation of eight men from the US from Asia and Latin America to South Sudan in July was the result of “single bilateral” involvement.
South Sudan struggled to recover from the civil war that broke out after independence and ended in 2018, killing nearly 400,000 people and throwing the country’s pockets into starvation.
Analysts and diplomats warn that the world’s youngest country is on the verge of a renewed civil war.
The plan for the forced displacement of Gaza’s population was rejected by Palestinians and international condemnation.
Israel began a genocide war with Gaza from October 7, 2023, after Palestinian resistance fighters engaged in a surprising Al Aksa Storm operation against a decades of blood and destruction against the Palestinians.
The bloody onslaught of the Gaza regime has killed more than 64,231 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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