Trump says that “the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip”

With his shock remarks, Donald Trump once again created the amazement on Tuesday, saying that he wanted to take “control” from the Gaza Strip devastated by the war, a proposal that could “change history” according to Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu .

The American president also repeated that the inhabitants of Gaza could go to live in Jordan or Egypt, despite the opposition of these countries and the Palestinians themselves.

“We will take possession of it and be responsible for the dismantling of all the dangerous bombs that have not exploded and all weapons,” he added, stressing that the United States was going to “flatten the area and get rid of Buildings destroyed ”, in order to economically develop the Palestinian territory.

He did not get out of the way he intended to do so, speaking of a “long -term” project, but he said that he had spoken to other countries in the region that “loved” the idea.

“This is not a decision taken lightly,” he said, repeating his wish to make Gaza the “Côte d’Azur du Middle East”.

Simply cleaning up “

Obviously happy to display their good understanding, even if the two leaders were able to have disputes, Benyamin Netanyahu praised in Donald Trump “the best friend that Israel has ever had in the White House”.

He said that a normalization agreement for relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel was going to “be done”. What Ryad immediately denied.

“Saudi Arabia will continue without respite its efforts to establish an independent Palestinian State with East Jerusalem as a capital and will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without it,” said the Saudi Foreign Ministry.

The American president recently aroused a wave of international indignation by proposing to “simply clean up” in the Gaza Strip and to transfer its inhabitants to “safer” places like Egypt or Jordan, hostile to the ‘idea.

Donald Trump must receive the king of Jordan Abdallah II in the week and have already maintained himself on the phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi.

A Hamas leader, Sami Abu Zuhri, castigated Donald Trump’s statements on the trip of the Palestinians, believing that they were a “recipe for creating chaos” in the Middle East.

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, called him the leaders of the world to “respect the wishes of the Palestinian people” to live in Gaza.

The meeting at the White House occurs when delicate negotiations on the continuation of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the first phase, came into force on January 19.

Hamas announced Tuesday that “contacts and negotiations for the second phase” of the ceasefire had “started”.

“Rooted in his land”

Israel had explained earlier that he would send a delegation to Qatar to “at the end of the week”, one of the three mediating countries with the United States and Egypt, to discuss the pursuit of the truce.

In the Gaza Strip, many Palestinians moved by war took advantage of the truce to find their land, determined to rebuild. More than half a million of them have already returned to the north of the territory, particularly destroyed by the fighting.

“Trump and Netanyahu must understand the reality of the Palestinian people. It is a people deeply rooted in their land, we will not leave it, ”said Hatem Azzam, a resident of Rafah, in the south of Gaza.

The first phase of the truce has so far allowed the release of 18 hostages retained in Gaza and around 600 Palestinians held by Israel, as well as an influx of humanitarian aid in the besieged territory.

The second phase must allow the release of the last hostages and the final end of the war, triggered by the attack on Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.

Once released the hostages during the first phase, the Palestinian Islamist movement will still hold around fifty hostages, dead or alive.