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Donald Trump has suggested his plan for the Gaza Strip, stating that he wants to “clean out the whole thing” as it is in “a real mess”.
US President Donald Trump floats plan for Gaza Strip (Reuters Image)
US President Donald Trump has floated a potential plan to “clean out” Gaza and said on Saturday (local time) that he is pressing Jordan and Egypt to take in Palestinians from the war-torn territory.
Trump indicated that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about a plan to build housing and shift over 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other nations, CNN reported.
When asked about his call with Jordan’s Abdullah II earlier in the day, Trump said that he has asked the king to accommodate more Palestinians into his nation.
“I said to him that I’d love you to take on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One, CNN reported.
The President said he would want both Jordan and Egypt to take Palestinians and added that he would speak to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi about his plan on Sunday.
“You’re talking about a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” Trump said.
Describing the current situation in the Gaza Strip as a “demolition site”, the President said that he would “rather get involved” and speak to the Arab nations in the Middle East to settle Palestinians where they could live in peace.
“I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change,” CNN quoted Trump as saying.
He further noted that this housing “could be temporary” or “could be long term”.
Trump confirmed that he had lifted hold imposed by the Biden administration on the provision of 2,000-pound bombs for Israel.
“We released them today and they’ll have them. They paid for them and they’ve been waiting for them for a long time,” he said.
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