The Plot To Relocate Gaza To Anbar Desert

Reports have appeared since the Trump administration's peace plan was unveiled in 2019 indicating that the US's prolonged stay in western Iraq is a plot to relocate Gaza to the Anbar Desert.

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Thanks to the US-backed "Deal of the Century," there is a revived discourse among Iraqis on the settlement of Palestinians in the western Anbar desert.

Iraqi MP al-Baldawi, the al-Fatah coalition's representative in the country's parliament, made the following allegations as early as February 2020:

"The US is plotting to keep out Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units, or PMU) from the western provinces of Iraq, specially al-Anbar province, in a move to provide a proper ground for sheltering the Palestinians inside Iraq." 

However, the recent, covert visit to Anbar Governorate by the British ambassador to Iraq has coincided with the topic's inc...

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