U.S. President Donald Trump speaks throughout a joint press convention with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu within the East Room on the White Home in Washington, U.S., Feb. 4, 2025.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday night mentioned the US “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and “we’ll personal it.”
Trump mentioned that each one Palestinians presently dwelling in Gaza, almost 2 million folks, ought to go away the territory and be positioned in different nations within the Center East. He mentioned the U.S. may then re-develop Gaza, which has been decimated throughout a struggle with Israel.
“Gaza is a hellhole,” Trump mentioned on the White Home throughout a joint information convention with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu, when requested in regards to the U.S. taking up Gaza, mentioned, “I believe it is one thing that would change historical past.”
“And I believe it is actually price pursuing this avenue,” he added.
Trump’s suggestion that the US ought to take over Gaza was a brand new one for him.
Nevertheless it comes on the heels of his ideas that the U.S. purchase or take over Greenland from Denmark, that Canada turn out to be a 51st state for the U.S., and that the U.S. take again management of the Panama Canal.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we are going to do a job with it too,” Trump mentioned Monday.
“We’ll personal it and be accountable for dismantling the entire harmful unexploded bombs and different weapons on the location, degree the location, and do away with the destroyed buildings, degree it out, create an financial growth that may provide limitless numbers of jobs and housing for the folks of the realm,” Trump mentioned. “Do an actual job, do one thing totally different.”
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