British leaked documents: Husni Mubarak agreed to resettle Palestinians in Egypt

British leaked documents discovered that former Egyptian President Husni Mubarak accepted resettling Palestinians in Egypt thirty years ago, according to BBC.

According to the documents, obtained by the BBC exclusively under the Freedom of Information in Britain, Mubarak has responded to an American request in this regard.

Mubarak has conditioned that in order for Egypt to accept the resettlement of the Palestinians, an agreement must be reached on "a framework for a comprehensive deal of the Arab-Israeli conflict."

The documents indicate that Mubarak had uncovered the American request and his response to it during his talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during his visit to London on his way back from Washington in February 1983 where he met with US President Ronald Reagan, according to the British corporation.

The visits came eight months after Israel invaded Lebanon on June 6, 1982 under the disguise of launching a military operation against the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) following the attempted assassination of its ambassador to Britain Shlomo Argov by the Palestinian Abu Nidal organization.

The Israeli army then occupied southern Lebanon after widespread attacks against fighters from the PLO, the Syrian army and armed Islamist organizations in Lebanon.

At the beginning of the occupation, the Israeli army surrounded the PLO and some Syrian army units in West Beirut. After the interference of Philip Habib, the US envoy to the Middle East, the PLO withdrew from west Beirut after massive destruction caused by the Israeli military operation.

With this extreme tension in the Middle East, Mubarak asked to convince the United States and Israel to accept the establishment of a Palestinian entity within the framework of a confederation with Jordan in preparation for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the future.

This is an edited translation for the BBC Arabic website