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 who currently live in Gaza – around 2 million people – should be placed and placed to other countries in the Middle East, including Jordan and Egypt, while the USA is developing the territory.
Minister of these and other Arab countries rejected the idea of accepting residents of Gaza Strip a few days ago.
Gaza started from the terrorist group Hamas during a war with his neighbor Israel, which began on October 7, 2023.
“Gaza is a hell hole,” said Trump in the White House during a joint press conference with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The former New York real estate developer later suggested that Gaza could finally be “the Riviera of the Middle East”, where “the people of the world” could make their houses.
“I see a long-term possession of the ownership,” said Trump when he was asked if he was presenting a permanent US line-up of Gaza.
“This could be so great,” said Trump, who argued that his plan could possibly bring “big peace” into the broader region.
When Netanyahu was asked about the takeover of the USA Gaza, said: “I think it could change something that could change the story.”
“And I think it is really worth watching this opportunity,” added Netanyahu.
Neither he nor Trump have noticed how the United States would have the legal authority to adopt and manage Gaza Strip while developing the territory.
The US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed a joint press conference on February 4, 2025 in the east of the White House in Washington, USA.
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Trump's suggestion that the United States should take over Gaza was a new one for him.
But it comes to his suggestions that the USA from Denmark will buy or take over that Canada will be a 51st state for the USA and that the United States takes control of the Panama channel.
“The United States will take over the Gaza Strip and we will also do a job with it,” said Trump on Monday.
“We will own it and be responsible for reducing all dangerous non -exploded bombs and other weapons on the site, removing the location and getting rid of the destroyed buildings, to complain about it, to create an economic development that provides an unlimited number of unlimited numbers Jobs and apartments for people in the region, ”said Trump.
“Do a real job, do something else.”
CNBC has requested a comment on Trump's plan from the White House.
A source of the White House, which was familiar with Trump's statements, said NBC News said that they were not spoken outside the cuff, but were discussed with the Israeli Prime Minister before his press conference.
The Council for American-Islamic relationships condemned Trump's statements.
“The Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people, not the United States, and President Trump's appeal to temporarily or permanently displace the Palestinians from their country from their country,” said Nihad Awad Nihad Awad, Cair National Executive Director.
“Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the entire Muslim world have made it clear that this delusional idea is unacceptable,” said Awad.
“If the Palestinian people were ever exhausted by the Gaza, this crime against humanity would complete the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in their own country, trigger a widespread conflict, put the final nail into the coffin of international law and permanently scars our nation International image, “said Awad.
Trump's son-in-law, the former advisor to the White House, Jared Kushner, said last year that there is “valuable potential” for the “Waterfront ownership of Gaza”.
Kushner, whose own family made her own real estate feeling in the New York region, said at the same time that Israel should bring Gaza Strip into the NEGEV desert in South Israel.
Netanyahu's visit to the White House comes when American, Israeli and Arab negotiators begin talks in a second phase of a ceasefire plan for Gaza, which has previously promised to end the devastating 15-month war.
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Since the beginning of the ceasefire in January, several Israeli hostages have been freed and Hamas has recaptured political control over Gaza.
Palestinian civilians who were forced from their houses in the past year of war have also started to return.
But the question of what is now politically and logistically in the Gaza has been fixed.
On Tuesday on Tuesday, Trump said that he did not believe that the residents of the occupied area, which counted about 2.2 million before the start of the war, were supposed to return to their homes.
“This is a very difficult situation. I don't think people should return to Gaza,” said Trump in the White House. “You live hellishly. You have no alternative.”
Trump said he was working on convincing the neighboring countries to accept hundreds of thousands of other refugees from the area.
“The king in Jordan and the General in Egypt will open their heart and give us the kind of land we need,” said Trump on Tuesday evening.
“We will give people the opportunity to live in a beautiful community that is safe and safe. And I think they will see enormously, an enormous outbreaks of support,” said Trump.
“I can tell you that I have spoken to other countries of the countries in the Middle East and they love the idea. They say that it would really bring stability and what we need is stability.”
– Additional reporting according to CNBCs Christina Wilkie
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