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Trump says U.S. will own and develop Gaza, and Palestinians living there should leave
President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening said the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip,” and “we’ll own it.”
Trump said that all Palestinians currently living in Gaza — around 2 million people — should leave and be placed in other countries in the Middle East, among them Jordan and Egypt, while the U.S. develops the territory.
Ministers of those and other Arab countries several days ago flatly rejected the idea of accepting Gaza residents.
Gaza has been decimated during a war with its neighbor Israel, which began with the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the terror group Hamas.
“Gaza is a hellhole,” Trump said at the White House during a joint news conference with Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The former New York real estate developer later suggested that Gaza eventually could be “the Riviera of the Middle East,” where “the world’s people” could make their homes.
“I do see a long-term ownership position,” Trump said when asked if he envisioned a permanent U.S. occupation of Gaza.
It's going to be awesome. Imagine a big trump Tower on the ground where thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered by the IDF. The "world's people" could make their homes there. Except for, you know, those Palestinians who lived there. They have to go.
I think Don forgot for a moment he isn't a real estate developer any longer. But I bet Jared, with the billions the Saudi's gave him to invest, is eager to break ground.