Steve Witkoff, the special envoy from the US to the middle, said that Gaza will be “uninhabitable” for at least 10 to 15 years, while the reconstruction interviews continue in the midst of a fragile stop -fire between Israel and Hamas.
“I think everyone wants to see peace in the region,” said Witkoff in a Tuesday interview about “Hannity.”
“And peace in the region means a better life for the Palestinians. A better life is not necessarily connected to the physical room That you are today. A better life is about better opportunities, better financial circumstances, better ambitions for you and your family. That does not happen because you can pitch a tent in the Gaza Strip and you are surrounded by 30,000 ammunition that can go off any time. It is a dangerous place to live today. “
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)
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President Donald Trump suggested the United States “took over” the Gaza Strip, level IT and rebuild it at a certain moment in the future during a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability in that part of the Middle East, and perhaps the very middle -east“Said Trump, adding that it is a decision that he did not make lightly.
“Everyone I have spoken of likes the idea that the United States own that piece of land, developing thousands of jobs and creating with something that will be beautiful – in a really beautiful area that nobody would know. No one could watch because they all See is death and Destruction and rubble And demolished buildings that fall everywhere. It’s just a terrible, terrible face. “
A view of destroyed buildings such as the scale of destruction caused by Israeli attacks comes up after the withdrawal of the Israeli army in Khan Yunis, Gaza at 29,2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty images)
The president has repeatedly proposed to move Palestinians to nearby Egypt and Jordan, although both countries have rejected such calls.
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Witkoff told Fox News-Gastheer Sean Hannity that Trump wants to give Palestinians “more hope” for a better future, and a possibly removed from the enclave torn by war.
Palestinians walk through the destruction that has been left by the Israeli air and the ground offensive after they withdraw from Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip, Sunday 7 April 2024.
“I think he says the center -East that the last 50 years of things was not the right way to do things, and that he is going to change it because all those iterations have not worked,” said.
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Netanyahu said reporters that Trump’s Gaza proposal is something that could change history.
“President Trump takes it to a much higher level,” said Netanyahu. “He sees another future for that piece of land that has been so much terrorism, so much – So many attacks on usSo many tests and so many trials. He has a different idea, and I think it is worth paying attention to this. ”
