Gaza ‘incredible piece of important real estate,’ Trump tells Netanyahu
In an Oval Office meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, President Donald Trump again floated the controversial idea of taking over the Gaza Strip, calling the Palestinian territory “an incredible piece of important real estate.”
Trump, a former real estate magnate, told Netanyahu that Gaza is “an incredible piece of important real estate and I think it’s something that we would be involved in.”
The president also said he would deploy US military forces in the coastal Palestinian territory, saying that “having a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing.”
Trump once again suggested the idea that the Israeli regime expels the Palestinians from their homeland.
“If you take the people, the Palestinians, and move them around to different countries — and you have plenty of countries that will do that — you really have a freedom zone.”
Netanyahu, who is in Washington for the second time since Trump took office in January, denied that Israel is the one keeping Palestinians “locked in” the besieged territory.
“What the president talked about is, first of all, to give people a choice. Gazans were closed in… What is wrong with giving people a choice?”
“It’s going to take years to rebuild Gaza, and in the meantime, people can have an option.”
The last time Trump met with the head of the Israeli regime in Washington, he sparked outrage across the world by saying that Washington would take over control of the Gaza Strip— possibly with the help of American troops— to create a "Riviera of the Middle East."
He had also suggested that the displaced Palestinians could be resettled elsewhere.
Trump's remarks immediately sparked global condemnation in February, with European allies, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt rejecting the displacement of Palestinians and reiterating their calls for a two-state solution.
Ninety percent of Gaza's current population of 2.1 million people has been displaced by Israel’s brutal campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing since October 2023.
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