US President Donald Trump On Sunday he said that he is committed to the American purchase and possession of Gaza, but that he may allow Middle Eastern countries to rebuild parts of the area through the Israel-Hamas war.
Trump made the comment when he spoke with reporters on board Air Force one on his way to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
“I am committed to buying and possessing Gaza,” said Trump. “As far as we rebuild it, we can give it to other states in the middle -east to build parts of it, other people can do it through our auspices. But we are dedicated to possess, take it and take care of it That Hamas does not go back “
“There is nothing to go back. The place is a demolition location. The rest will be demolished. Everything has been demolished,” he said.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One while on Saturday, January 25, 2025, from Las Vegas to Miami. (AP)
The president also said he was open to the possibility of leaving some Palestinian refugees to the US, but that those requests would be handled on a case -by -case basis.
Trump said last week at a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wants the US to take over Gaza after Palestinians have resorted in other countries.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will also do a work with it,” Trump said at the time. “We will possess it and be responsible for dismantling all dangerous, unexplored bombs and other weapons on the site.”
“Level the site and bowl of the destroyed buildings, deliver it, create an economic development that will deliver unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for people in the area,” he added. “Do it really. Do something else. I just can’t go back. If you go back, it will be the same way as 100 years.”
‘Level It’: Trump says that we will take over ‘Gaza Strip’, rebuilding to stabilize the Midden -East
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on board Air Force One on their way from Miami to joint andrews based on January 27, while the Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt of the White House listens. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
Several countries have criticized Trump’s comments about taking over Gaza, which was bombed by Israeli troops in the conflict fueled by Hamas’ 7 October 2023, attack on the Jewish state.
Trump too said on January 25 That he wanted Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries to accept more Palestinian refugees from Gaza, so that maybe enough people went outside to “just clean up” the area.
“You are probably talking about one and a half million people, and we just clean that whole thing clean and say,” You know, it’s over, “he said at the time.
Palestinians feared during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which is now under a ceasefire, that they would suffer from another “nakba”, which means catastrophe in Arabic, which refers to the relocation and expropriation of hundreds of thousands Palestinians during the 1948 war at the birth of the Is Israel.
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News when he was asked about Trump’s plan to take over Gaza that the American president was planned for Jordan’s King Abdullah II, the Egyptian Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Possibly to meet Saudi-Kroon and possibly Saudi-crown prince. Mohammed bin Salman.
US President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media before on January 31, 2025 on board Marine One in the White House in Washington, DC. (Bryan Dozier/Midden -Sost images/AFP via Getty images)
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“President Trump will meet large, great Arab leaders, in the first place the king of Jordan and the president of Egypt and I also think that the crown prince of Sudi -Arabia too,” Herzog said.
“These are partners that should be listened to, with which they must be discussed. We also have to honor their feelings and see how we build a plan that is sustainable for the future,” he added.
Saudi Aarabia is one of the many countries that have rejected Trump’s plan to take over Gaza. Jordan’s King Abdullah II is reportedly planning to tell Trump during their planned meeting on Tuesday that the proposal is a recipe for radicalism that will spread chaos in the middle and endangers the peace of the kingdom with Israel.
Reuters has contributed to this report.
