Trump sees the long -term American property of Gaza Strip

Trump underlined his thought while he was holding talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, where the two leaders also discussed the fragile ceasefire and hostage in the Israeli-Hamas conflict and shared concerns about Iran.

“I don’t think people should come back,” said Trump. “You can’t live in Gaza for the moment. I think we need another location. I think it should be a place that will make people happy. »»

Trump said the United States would appropriate the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after the Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and transform the territory into “the riviera of the Middle East” in which the “people of the world”-including Palestinians – would live. He did not offer any details on the authority that the United States would use to take the ground and develop it.

“We will make sure that it has made a world class,” said Trump. “It will be wonderful for people – Palestinians, Palestinians, above all, we are talking about.”

Egypt, Jordan and other American allies in the Middle East warned Trump that the move of the Palestinians of Gaza threaten the stability of the Middle EastRisk to expand the conflict and undermine a push of several decades by the United States and the Allies for a solution to two states.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia issued a strongly written reaction to Trump, noting that their long appeal to an independent Palestinian state was a “firm, firm and unshakable position”. Saudi Arabia has been in negotiations with the United States to diplomatically recognize Israel in exchange for a security pact and other conditions.

“The duty of the international community is today to work to mitigate the serious human sufferings endured by the Palestinian people, who will remain attached to their land and will not fall asleep,” the Saudi statement said.

However, Trump insists that the Palestinians “have no alternative” only to leave the “large heap of rubble” which is Gaza. He spoke when his best employees stressed that a calendar of three to five years for the reconstruction of the territory torn by the war, as in a temporary truce agreement, is not viable.

Last week, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi and Jordanian King Abdullah II rejected Trump’s calls to reinstall the Gazans.

But Trump said he believed that Egypt and Jordan – as well as other countries, that he has not appointed – will finally agree to take Palestinians.

“You look at the decades, everything is death in Gaza,” said Trump. “This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful region to reinstall people, permanently, in beautiful houses where they can be happy and not be slaughtered and not be killed and not be cut to death like what is happening in Gaza. “”

Trump also said that he did not eliminate the deployment of American troops to support the reconstruction of Gaza. He plans to “long -term” American property of a regional redevelopment.

“We will do what is necessary,” said Trump about the possibility of deploying American troops to fill any vacuum.

The president’s proposal was greeted by the Democrats and a measure of skepticism by its republican allies.

“He lost it completely,” said senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn. “He wants an American invasion of Gaza, which would cost thousands of American lives and would set fire to the Middle East for 20 years? It’s sick.

“We will see what our Arab friends say about it,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and a Trump ally. And I think most South Carolinians are probably not delighted to hire Americans to take Gaza. I think it could be problematic, but I will keep my mind open.

The emphasis put by the White House on the future of Gaza occurs while the emerging truce between Israel and Hamas is at stake.

Netanyahu faces competing pressures from his right coalition to end a temporary truce against Hamas activists in Gaza and War Israelis who want the remaining hostages at home and for the 15 -month conflict.

Trump can bet that he can persuade Egypt and Jordan to accept the displaced Palestinians due to the important aid that the United States provides Cairo and Amman. Netanyahu’s right -wing members of the right -wing government adopted the call to move the displaced Palestinians from Gaza.

“For me, it is unfair to explain to the Palestinians that they could be back in five years,” Trump’s Middle East said Steve Witkoff, to journalists. “It’s just absurd.”

Trump also reported that he could reconsider an independent Palestinian state as part of a broader solution to two states with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for several decades.

“Well, many plans change over time,” he told journalists when he was asked if he was still engaged in a plan like the one he presented in 2020 who called for a state Palestinian. “Many deaths have occurred since my departure and has returned now.”

The arrival of Netanyahu in Washington for the first visit of foreign leader of the second term of Trump coincides with the popular support of the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister is in the middle of the week of testimonies in a trial under corruption which focuses on the allegations he has exchanged with media magnates and rich associates. He criticized the accusations and said he was the victim of a “witch hunt”.

Being seen with Trump, who is popular in Israel, could help distract the public from the trial and increase Netanyahu’s position.

“We have the right leader of Israel who did an excellent job,” said Trump about Netanyahu.

Netanyahu praised Trump’s leadership in obtaining the hostage and cease-fire contract. The Prime Minister also spoke of Trump brilliantly thinking of beaten track.

“You say things that others refuse to say. And after the jaws fall, people scratch their heads and they say, “You know he’s right.” “”

This is Netanyahu’s first trip outside Israel since the International Criminal Court published arrest warrants in November for him, his former defense minister and the military chief killed Hamas, accusing them of crimes against humanity during the war in Gaza. The United States does not recognize the authority of the ICC on its citizens or its territory.

Netanyahu met the National House of Blanche, Mike Waltz and Witkoff’s national security advisor on Monday, to start the intimidating work of negotiating the next phase of a cease-fire agreement.

The Israeli chief said that he would send a delegation to Qatar to continue indirect talks with Hamas who are publicized by the Gulf Arab country, the first confirmation that these negotiations would continue. Netanyahu also said that he would summon his security firm to discuss Israel’s requests for the next cease-fire phase when he returned to Israel at the end of the week.

Witkoff, on the other hand, said that he was planning to meet the Prime Minister of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Florida on Thursday to discuss the next ceasefire phase. Qatar and Egypt have served as key intermediaries with Hamas throughout the conflict.

Netanyahu undergoes intense pressure from the hard members to the right of his power coalition to abandon the ceasefire and take the fighting in Gaza to eliminate Hamas. Bezalel Smotrich, one of Netanyahu’s main partners, promises to overthrow the government if the war is not relaunched, a stage that could lead to early elections.

Hamas, which has reaffirmed control over Gaza since the start of the ceasefire last month, said that it would not release hostages in the second endless phase to war and the withdrawal of Israeli forces. Netanyahu, meanwhile, argues that Israel is attached to victory over Hamas and the return of all the hostages captured in October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.

Goldenberg reported to Tel Aviv, Israel. The writers of the Associated Press Melanie Lidman in Jerusalem, Jon Gambrell in Dubai and Michelle L. Price, Stephen Groves and Lisa Mascaro contributed the reports.