Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth doubled President Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip and to say that “all options” are on the table.
Hegseeth refused the commander -in -chief About what the United States would or would not do, instead, Fox News-guesthouse Laura Ingraham tell in an interview on Wednesday that Trump is an “Buiten-de-Box Thinker” who is willing to “destroy the apple wagon”.
Trump made shock waves on Tuesday when he said that the United States could possibly “take over” the Gaza Strip, being able to rebuild and rebuild it at a certain moment. The 47th president told reporters that he sees and believes a “long-term ownership position” of the enclave that it could be the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
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US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answer questions during a joint press conference in the East Room in the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4. (Reuters/Leah Millis)
Hegseeth, a former co-guesthouse of “Fox & Friends Weekend”, said it is Israel’s task to eradicate Hamas and as soon as that happens, the status of Gaza is a conversation that Trump is prepared to have.
“You bring peace by eradicating terrorists looking for the destruction of Israel. This is how you bring peace, and so I support it,” he said. “What happens afterwards Is a longer conversation, and hopefully the president would at least acknowledge this – you don’t want to use American boots at all if you don’t have to do that. That is my preference. “
Trump told reporters in the White House that the United States would ‘possess the Gaza Strip’ and ‘be responsible for dismantling all dangerous, non -depleted bombs and other weapons on the site’. When asked whether we would do that be sent to GazaThe president said, “As far as Gaza is concerned, we will do what is needed. If necessary, we will.”
People inspect the rubble and rubble on the site of Israeli bombing of a residential block in Jalaa Street in Gaza City on January 14, 2025 amid the continuous war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty images)
Joey Jones, a FOX News -contributor and retired Marine Bomb Tech Die lost his legs In an IED explosion in Afghanistan, he said that he is “not” for Trump’s proposal that American troops are responsible for non -depleted regulations.
“My intuition, my conviction, is that this is part of its chess, and this is his way of getting places like perhaps Saudi -Arabia or Jordan to say: ‘No, no, no, you can’t have this. We do it. Wait a minute“I just voted for you because you said we would not get involved in more wars,” Jones explained about ‘The Will Cain Show’.
Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Aarabia have rejected Trump’s calls to relocate Palestinians while the enclave is being rebuilt.
Palestinians continue to return to their houses after a cease -the fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, amidst destruction in Gaza City, Gaza on 2 February 2025. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty images)
Hegseeth told “the Ingraham -Hoek” that the president has spoken about other countries that may be willing to take refugees.
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“We need new ideas in a place where it has not been disturbed, so there are people who would be caught on guard. That’s something that the president is willing to manage,” he said. “But those of us who were there at the press conference were not surprised that he would think differently, because that is what he was chosen for.”
