President Donald Trump said on Tuesday evening that the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip” and “we will own it.”
Trump said that all Palestinians are currently living in Gaza – around them 2 million people It must leave and place in other countries in the Middle East, including Jordan and Egypt, while the United States is developing the region.
The ministers of these and other Arab countries several days ago rejected the idea of accepting the residents of Gaza.
Gaza was destroyed during a war with its neighbor, Israel, which started with the October 7, 2023 attack, by the terrorist group Hamas.
“Gaza is hell,” Trump said at the White House during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The former real estate developer in New York later suggested that Gaza could eventually be the “Riviera for the Middle East”, where the “people of the world” could make their homes.
“I see a long -term royal position,” Trump said when asked whether he was conceived in Gaza.
“This may be very cool,” said Trump, who argued that his plan could bring a “big peace” to the wider region.
“I think it is something that could change history,” said Netanyahu, when asked about the United States’ assumption of Gaza.
“I think it really deserves to follow this road,” added Netanyahu.
He or Trump has not determined how the United States would have the legal authority to take over Gaza and its administration because it redefined the region.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a joint press conference in the Eastern Chamber of the White House in Washington, the United States, February 4, 2025.
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Trump’s suggestion that the United States should take over Gaza was a new proposal for it.
But he comes in the wake of his proposals that the United States buys or Greenland takes over from Denmark, and that Canada becomes the state of 51 of the United States, and that the United States is regaining control of the Panama Channel.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will work with it as well,” Trump said on Monday.
“We will have it and be responsible for dismantling all the dangerous and other uninterrupted bombs and housing for the people of the region,” Trump said.
“Do real, do something different.”
CNBC asked a comment from the White House about the Trump plan.
A source in the White House said that Trump’s remarks told NBC News that they did not talk about the cuff, but was discussed before his press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister.
The Council of American Islamic Relations condemned Trump’s comments.
“Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and to invite President Trump to remove the Palestinians from their lands, either temporarily or always, unpopular,” said the National Nihad Awad.
Oud said: “Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the entire Islamic world have explained that this fake idea is unacceptable.”
“If the Palestinian people are expelled in one way or another from Gaza, this crime against humanity will complete the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians on their soil, raise a widespread struggle, put the final nail in the coffin of international law, and permanently praise our nation the international image,” Oud said.
Trump’s son -in -law, former White House advisor Jared KushnerLast year, he said that there were “valuable potentials” for “water property” in Gaza.
Kushner, whose family made his wealth in the New York region, said at the same time that Israel should transfer civilians in Gaza to the Negif Desert, in southern Israel.
Netanyahu’s visit to the White House comes at a time when the American, American and Arab negotiators begin in talks about the second stage of the ceasefire plan in Gaza, which has so far a promise to end the devastating war for 15 months.
Since the ceasefire began in January, many Israeli hostages have been released and Hamas has regained political control of Gaza.
The Palestinian civilians who were forced from their homes over the past year began the war to return.
But the issue of what is happening now in Gaza, politically and logistically, is fraught with risks.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said he did not believe that the inhabitants of the occupied region, who numbered about 2.2 million before the war began, should return to their homes.
“This is a very difficult situation. I don’t think people should return to Gaza,” Trump said at the White House earlier. “They live like hell. They have no alternative.”
Trump said he was working to persuade neighboring countries to accept hundreds of thousands of refugees from the region.
“The king in Jordan and the general in Egypt will open their hearts and give us the type of land that we need,” Trump said on Tuesday evening.
“We will give people an opportunity to live in a beautiful, safe and safe society,” Trump said. “
“I can tell you, I have spoken to the leaders of other countries in the Middle East, and they love the idea. They say it will really bring stability, and what we need is stability.”
– Additional reports by CNBC’s Christina Wilki