US President Donald Trump said he wants the United States to take ownership of Gaza, to move from his earlier statements to force Palestinians in a war -torn enclave to move to Jordan and Egypt.
He said in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday evening, “America will capture Gaza Strip, and we will also work with it,”
In recent times, hundreds of Palestinians have marched north towards their homes in the southern parts of Gaza, as Israel had allowed people to return as part of the session for the hostage release deal with Hamas.
Trump said that he wants to develop the region that he calls the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
“Everyone I have loved to love the United States piece, which is near the piece of that land, developing and building thousands of jobs with some, in a really magnificent field,” Hey said.
Netanyahu said that one of his war goals is to ensure that Hamas never threatened to Israel again. But Trump, Netanyahu said, “It is taking it to a higher level.”
“I think it can chase some picti, and it is really meaningful to pursue this avenue,” he said.
Trump did not share a details of how he plans to control the devastated area by 15 mons of the war, but he did not refuse to send us to the soldiers.
“If this is necessary, we will do so. We are going to handle that piece, and we are going to develop it, “Hey said.
Trump’s comments mark a notable change from his criticism of America’s participation in the Middle East conflicts. He sees a “long -term ownership status” for the US, which “will enter the great stability in that part of the Middle East and perhaps the Middle East.”
“It was not a mild decision,” he said.
However, any discussion of rehabilitation will definitely be completed with resistance from Palestinians. What Israel is now called, hundreds of thousands were operated from their homes: around the construction of Israel in 1948 and during the 1967 of West Bank and Gaza Strip of Israel.
Trump’s plan to transfer Palestinians earlier this month, including Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, had rejected Palestinian Authority and Arab League countries to transfer Palestinians. He warned that the search plans “the stability of the area, the danger to expand the risk, and reduce the possibilities for peace and co -existence among their people.”
It is not clear how Gaza will fit in Trump’s declared target to expand the Abraham Agreement to include Riyadh. He normalized relations between Israel and Arab countries in 2020.
Saudi Arabia has publicly stated that it would only agree to recognize Israel, if the Gaza war ends and the Palestinians have a way for the platform.
Earlier on Tuesday, whether Saudi is demanding the Palestinian state, Trump said, “No, they are not.”
Trump’s statement on Gaza is his latest sign of expansionist ambitions, after his statements of Denmark acquiring Greenland, to handle the Panama Canal and absorb Canada.
Inheritance renaissance
Talking to reporters at the White House before Tuesday, US Middle East Envoy Steve Witcoff said that the administration has started talks towards Phase 2 of the three-phase ceasefire-for-host-relief deal, in which held in Gaza The release of all the remaining hosts is also included, a permanent stop in fighting and returning from the region of Israel.
Hamas, a US designed terrorist group, has so far released 18 hostages, while Israel has freed hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Witcoff said that the administration had considered rebuilding parts of the agreement, which came into effect on January 19, a day before Trump’s inauguration.
“A part of the problem is that it was signed. What has not been decided by the Trump administration. What do we want to do with it, “Hey said. “Now we are working within that rubric, and we are finding out things.”
He doubled at Trump’s suggestion to remove Ghazan, stating that the five -year reconstruction plan for Gaza, as mentioned in Phase three, is “physically impossible”.
Ahmed Fauud Alakhtib, a senior partner of the Atlantic Council, said that Trump’s insistence on transferring Ghazans may indicate a desire to re -organize the session deal.
He said, “Lakshya Hamas may be to force Hamas to choose from Gaza or to leave the strip if he wants to return or rebuild Israel, or puts the encryro at risk to forcibly remove the population, although how this is this Will take out is unknown, “he told the VOA. ,
So on Tuesday, Trump ended support for the United Nations agency, which helps the Palestinian refugees and withdraws the US which he calls the Antisemitic UN Human Rights Council.
Iran atom
Shortly before his meeting with Netanyahu, Trump directed his colleagues to restore their “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran to prevent it from receiving nuclear weapons and its oil exports can be taken to zero. Could
“I am sad to do it, but I am not so real, go to be strong and firm, and I hope it is not to be used in any great measure,” hey said. “It is very simple. Iran may not have nuclear weapons.
By September 2024, American intelligence concluded In a report That Iran is not making an nuclear weapon. However, Iran has “one activities that do a better situation to produce one, if it does, it selects it,” the report states.
In November, under the Biden administration, the Department of Justice announced that an Iranian conspiracy to kill Trump before the presidential election was thwarted. Trump said that he has directed his colleagues to “slant” Tehran if the Iranian regime moves forward to kill him.
“If they did so they were diagonally,” said Trump. “I have left the instructions. If they do this, they become diagonally, no one will be.”
Pressure on Netanyahu
As Trump’s meeting with Netanyahu, the Israeli leader faced pressure from his right -wing alliance to end the ceasefire.
Both Trump and Netanyahu share Hamas’s rule in Gaza and share the remaining Israeli hostages, Jonathan Rhinold said, Head of the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University. However, both people have different priorities on various aspects of the target.
For Netanyahu, the priority is to ensure that Hamas has no political future, Rhinold told the VOA, while it maintains the ceasefire for Trump “so that he goes to an Israeli-Saw Arab criteria agreement. Could. “
Under the presidents, Joe Biden from the US administration George W. Bush has given his support for the Palestinian state under two state solutions. During his first term in 2020, Trump announced his Middle East Peace Plan, which would refuse the Palestinians to keep their kingdom.
Did Trump on Tuesday asked the non-casting whether he supports the two-state solution. His plan on Gaza is “two-state or one-state or anything about any state,” he said.
The war in Gaza began with October. 7, 2023, Hamas attack which killed 1.200 people in Israel and took around 250 people hostage. Israel’s counter aggressive has killed more than 47,500 Palestinians, of which more than half of which are women and children. Israel’s army says that 17,000 Hamas militants including the death toll.
