Trump says we will “take over the gauze lane” during a press conference with Netanyahu

On Tuesday, President Trump said that he would now “take over the gauze belt” and “own it”, continuing to promote the idea that the Palestinian people should live somewhere else.

Mr. Trump, whose comments came at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuPalestinians said in Gaza “they should not go through the renovation process” and that they “lived a poor existence” there. Earlier in the afternoon, during a meeting with Netanyahu in the oval office, Mr. Trump said Palestinians should “permanently move” to “beautiful homes” somewhere else.

“Now he’ll take over Gaza’s belt, and we’ll do his job with him,” Mr. Trump said. “We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons in place, leveling a place and get rid of destroyed buildings – to level it. Create economic development that will provide an unlimited number of jobs and accommodation for people of the area.

“I just can’t come back,” he continued. “If you come back, it will end the same way as a hundred years.”

Netanyahu, who is the first foreign leader who visited Mr. Trump during his second term, said about the president’s idea: “We talk about it. We explore it with his people, with his staff. I think that could change something that could change History, and it is worth it to follow this time. “

Whether US troops will be sent to Gaza, the president said, “As for Gaza, we will do what is necessary. If necessary, we will do so.”

“We’ll take over that piece,” Mr. Trump added. “We will develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something that the whole Middle East can be very proud of.”

The reporter asked the president what authority he had to take over the sovereign territory, and he replied that he had studied the issue carefully for months.

“I see a long -term ownership place and I see that it brings great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the whole of the Middle East,” said Mr. Trump.

The president said his decision to take over Gaza “was not made by the decision,” and claimed that he had received the praise of other leaders in the Middle East, although he did not identify any name. Later, two sources said that the top Trump assistants had known before the visit to Netanyahu, the president had planned to publish a proposal to owned by US ownership of Gaza.

The leaders of several of the most powerful Arabic nations have previously said they were strongly opposed Each proposal for the residents of Gaza to move to other countries.

In the past, Mr. Trump has expressed support for “a realistic solution with two countries.” Gaza, a lane of 139 square kilometers that divides borders with Israel and Egypt, has been struggling for years. Palestinians have been refugee for decades, because Israel gained control of him in the six -day war in 1967 with Egypt, Jordan and Syria.

Asked who would eventually live in Gaza after renewing, Mr. Trump said it should be an international place.

“I imagine people living in the world, the people of the world,” he said, adding that residents should be “representatives from all over the world, Palestinians,” Palestinians. “He said it would be” Riviera of the Middle East. “

Mr. Trump opened a press conference, enhancing a warm relationship with Netanyahu, saying that in his first term they created a successful partnership. He claimed that for the last four years – under former President Joe Biden – they have not seen so much success.

He claimed “serious damage around the world, including in the Middle East … The horrors of October 7 would never have happened to be the president.”

In the midst of the massacre of Israeli civilians in 2023, Netanyahu praised Biden “for his vital support for Israel.”

Netanyahu suggested that Mr. Trump can be unconventional, but he has good ideas and they work well together.

“After the jaw falls, people scratch their heads and say,” You know, he’s right, “Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu told reporters that he had discovered that he had something else in common with Mr. Trump – he said Iran tried to kill them both.

Trump, Netanyahu meets in an oval office before a press conference

Sitting next to Netanyahu in an oval office, Mr. Trump repeatedly said that he did not think that Palestinians wanted to return to Gaza and said that he thought Jordan, Egypt and other countries would accept Palestinians, although they are Palestine, although they said they would not.

“He will not want to return to Gaza,” said Mr. Trump, adding that the Palestinians would only “die there”, suggesting that Palestinians should have a permanent settlement elsewhere.

“If we can get a wonderful area for permanently relocating people in beautiful homes and where they can be happy and not to be shot, not to be killed, not to be a knife to death, like what is happening in Gaza,” said Mr. Trump. “And at the moment you have a very dangerous situation in Gaza in terms of explosives everywhere, in terms of tunnels that no one knows who is in the tunnel. The whole thing is a mess.”

The president said that other “rich” countries should pay a new home to the Palestinians, although it did not spread to this proposal.

Netanyahu has largely allowed Mr. Trump to speak. One journalist asked the Israeli Prime Minister if former President Joe Biden or Mr. Trump was more responsible for the hostage agreement and the termination of fire.

“I think President Trump has added great force and strong guidance to this effort,” Netanyahu replied.

An agreement on the ceasefire and hostages between Israel and Hamas, who have partly mediated the US, still holding on to now. Double citizen Keith Siegel was the first American to be published by The implementation began Last month, although other Americans were published before.

On Sunday, Netanyahu said he would talk about “victory over Hamas” with Mr. Trump, as well as opposing Iran and upgraded to diplomatic relations with the Arab peoples.

Mr Trump told reporters on Monday that “there is no guarantee that peace will maintain.”

The president’s meeting with Netanyahu was his first with a foreign leader signaling that Trump’s White House watches the US-Israel relationship.

“Trump will continue his support to our great ally, Israel,” National Security Advisor Mike Waltz at Fox News said on Tuesday.

Waltz said the US and Israel have more “more” in terms of the return of Americans who kept hostage. And national security adviser said they now have to think “realistically” about the renewal of Gaza.

“The return of BiH to characterize a gauze cleansing,” Waltz told reporters on Tuesday. “I think President Trump looks at this from a humanitarian point of view. You have these people sitting with literally thousands of unexploded commands and a bunch of ruins. You know, at some point we have to look realistically. How do you renew the gauze? What does that look like? I have to go through.

Netanyahu last met with Mr. Trump in July on his MAR-a-Lazla estate on Palm Beach, Florida, while Mr. Trump was still a presidential candidate.

Netanyahu congratulated former President Joe Biden on his victory in 2020, which Mr. Trump held him for a long time against him. But the two worked to repair the relationship due to Hamas’s 7th October 2023, a terrorist attack on Israel.

One journalist noted that their relationship had ups and downs.

“I think that’s mostly ups,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday.

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