President Donald Trump Got it that no one from Gaza would be “driven out” in the midst of questions about his daring plan to rebuild the war torn by war.
“Nobody expelled Palestinians,” Trump told reporters in the White House on Thursday, met Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin.
Egypt, which led negotiations about an Arabic plan to rebuild Gaza, welcomed the president’s remark.
“This position reflects an understanding of the need to prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the importance of finding honest, sustainable solutions for the Palestinian issue,” theEgyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
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Trump, during a meeting with the Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheal Martin, said: “Nobody wants to expel Palestinians” from Gaza. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
In February, Trump suggested that the Our “take over” gaza torn by war.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will also do a work with it,” said Trump. “We will possess it and be responsible for dismantling all dangerous, unexplored bombs and other weapons on the site.”
He had said at the time that the population of Gaza of about 2 million would be moved “permanently”. Asked if that would be done by violence, he claimed that no Palestinians wanted to live under the rubble in Gaza.
Trump has claimed that no Palestinian would like to live under Gaza’s rubble. (Majdi Fathi/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
“We move them to a beautiful location where they have new houses, where they can live safely, where they will have doctors and medical and all those things,” he said while meeting King Abdullah van Jordan last month. “And I think it will be great.”
But finding one Central Eastern Nation who is willing to record masses of Palestinian refugees has proven to be difficult. After receiving Pushback from Egypt and Jordanian leaders on his vision of a Gaza without Palestinians, Trump said he would not “force” it.
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“The way to do it is my plan. I think this is the plan that really works. But I don’t force it. I just lean back and recommend it,” he told Fox News in February.
Palestinian men are destroyed in the vicinity of the ruins of houses during the Israeli offensive, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 13, 2025. (Reuters/Hatem Khaled TPX images of the day)
Earlier this month, Arabic leaders were agreed by $ 53 million by Egyptian -led reconstruction plan, but the White House rejected it. Spokesperson Brian Hughes of the National Security Council said that the Arabic proposal “is not going to be reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and residents cannot live human on a territory covered with debris and non -depleted ammunition.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Trump’s plan as a ‘revolutionary, creative vision’.
But Hamas also welcomed the certainty of Trump that Palestinians would not be deported.
“If the statements of US President Trump represent a retreat from any idea to move the people of the Gaza Strip, they are welcomed,” said Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem in the explanation.
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“We call on that this position is reinforced by the Israeli occupation to oblige all the conditions of the Stakes -furen -contracts,” he added.
White House Envoy Steve Witkoff is in Qatar for intensive conversations about the next phase of the Stakes -Fire Agreement. Israel wants a two -month break in fighting in exchange for about half of the remaining living hostages. Hamas urges a complete stopping of hostilities.
