Donald Trump wants the United States to take control of the Gaza Strip

In a surprising initiative that would have a deep impact on the Middle East, Donald Trump said Tuesday that The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip To rebuild it, but added that the Palestinians who live there must be “permanently relocated” outside that enclave devastated by war. He declared that his inhabitants would “worship” leave the strip and live elsewhere if they had the option.

The announcement of the US president happened after gathering at the White House with Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu. In a joint press conference, Trump said that “the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip and also do a good job” in it.

“We will possess it and we will be responsible for dismantling all the dangerous without exploiting bombs and other weapons in this place.” According to the Republican, the United States will level the place and get rid of destroyed buildings “to economically develop the territory. “Create an economic development that provides an unlimited number of jobs and homes for people in the area,” he added. Do a real job. Do something different. ”

Without giving too many details, he also said that he sees “A long -term possession.”

During their meeting, Trump and Netanyahu discussed the fragile high fire and the release of hostages in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which must now enter their second stage that foresees the term of the war.

Netanyahu did not hesitate to praise Trump and said that the US president is “the best friend” Israel has ever had in the White House. And that “his willingness to think in an innovative way with new ideas will help us achieve all these objectives,” Netanyahu said about Trump, adding that the latter “sees a different future” for that “piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism”.

Trump had recently generated international controversy by proposing “Clean” Gaza and transfer its inhabitants to “safer” places like Egypt and Jordan, which immediately opposed the idea. “When the president talks about ‘cleaning it’, he talks about making her habitable,” Tuesday said Trump’s special emissary for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. But Witkoff considers “absurd” to say that the strip will be habitable in five years. A high command of Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, crossed out Trump’s statements of “recipe to create chaos” in the Middle East.

“I don’t think people should return,” Trump said with Netanyahu by his side in the Oval Hall. “You can’t live in Gaza now. I think we need another location. I think it should be a place that makes people happy. ”

In addition, the president and his main advisors alleged that the schedule for the reconstruction of the Palestinian territory in the next three to five years – as established in the temporary truce agreement – is not viable. The tycoon had previously asked Egypt and Jordan who receive the Palestinians of Gaza. Both countries have flatly rejected such a proposal.

“If they realize, throughout the decades, Everything is death in Gaza ”, Trump commented. “This has been happening for years. Everything is death. If we can get a beautiful place to reassure the population, permanently, in beautiful houses where they can be happy and do not shoot them, or kill them, nor are they stabbed to kill them, such as what is happening in Gaza, ”he said.

The White House approach on the future of the more than 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza became known while the High on fire between Israel and Hamas hangs from a thread. Netanyahu faces pressure from their government coalition to finish a high temporary fire with the fighters of Hamas and the Israelis tired of war that want their fellow citizens who are still captive in Gaza return home and that the conflict that began 15 months end.

Trump and Netanyahu said their conversations would cover a standardization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and shared concerns about Iran’s nuclear plan, as well as the second phase of the agreement with Hamas.

Trump continues to press to relocate the Palestinians of Gaza even after both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and King Jordanian Abdullah II publicly rejected the idea. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, the Palestinian authority and the Arab League also rejected plans to get the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank, another Palestinian territory occupied by Israel.

However, Trump could be betting that he can persuade Egypt and Jordan to accept the displaced Palestinians due to the help that the United States provides to Cairo and Amán. Hard line members of the Netanyahu government have backed the call to displace the Palestinians outside Gaza.

“For me, it is unfair to explain to the Palestinians who could return in five years,” Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff told journalists. “It’s simply absurd.”

The US president also pointed out that he could be reconsidering an independent Palestinian state as part of a solution of two states for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that has been decades. “Well, many plans change over time,” he told reporters when asked if he was still committed to a plan like the one he presented in 2020 that he called a Palestinian state.