President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he remained attached to the purchase and possession of Gaza in the United States, but that he could allow countries in the Middle East to rebuild sections of the region ravaged by the War of Israel-Hamas.
Trump comments on the word to journalists on board the Air Force One on his way to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.
“I am determined to buy and own Gaza,” said Trump. “As far as we rebuild it, we can give it to other States of the Middle East to build sections, other people can do it, through our auspices. But we are committed to having it, to Take it and assure us this Hamas does not back down.
“There is nothing to come back. The place is a demolition site. The rest will be demolished. Everything is demolished,” he said.
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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists on the Air Force One while he traveled from Las Vegas to Miami on Saturday January 25, 2025. (AP)
The president also said that it was open to the possibility of authorizing certain Palestinian refugees in the United States, but that these requests would be processed on a case-by-case basis.
Trump said last week at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he wanted the United States to take control of Gaza after the Palestinians are reinstalled in other countries.
“The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip, and we will also do a job with him,” said Trump at the time. “We have it and will be responsible for the dismantling of all dangerous and unexplored bombs and other weapons on the site.”
“The site level and get rid of destroyed buildings, level it, create an economic development which will provide an unlimited number of jobs and housing for the inhabitants of the region,” he added. “Do a real job. Do something different. I can’t go back. If you go back, it will end in the same way as for 100 years.”
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President Donald Trump speaks to journalists on board the Air Force One on the way from Miami to Joint Base Andrews on January 27, while the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, listens. (AP / Mark Schiefelbein)
Several countries have criticized Trump’s comments on the stripping of Gaza, which was bombed by Israeli forces in the conflict launched by the attack on October 7, 2023 of Hamas against the Jewish State.
Trump too said January 25 That he wanted Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations to accept more Palestinian refugees from Gaza, potentially keeping enough people to “clean” the region.
“You are probably talking about a million and a half people, and we clean it up and say:” You know, it’s over “,” he said at the time.
The Palestinians feared during the War of Israel-Hamas in Gaza, which is now under a cease-fire, which they would suffer from another “Nakba”, which means a catastrophe in Arabic, which refers to displacement and to the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians during the 1948 war at the birth of the State of Israel.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli president Isaac Herzog told Maria Bartiromo de Fox News when he questioned Trump’s plan to take control of Gaza that the American president had to meet King Jordan Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Elsi And perhaps the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and perhaps the Arab Sadi. Mohammed bin Salman.
US President Donald Trump talks to media members before climbing a navy One at the White House in Washington, DC on January 31, 2025. (Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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“President Trump must meet the main major Arab leaders, first and foremost the king of Jordan and the president of Egypt and I also think of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia,” said Herzog.
“These are partners who must be listened to, they must be discussed with. We must also honor their feelings and see how we build a lasting plan for the future,” he added.
Saudi Arabia is one of the many countries that have rejected Trump’s plan to resume Gaza. Jordan King Abdullah II plans to tell Trump on Tuesday at their planned meeting that the proposal is a recipe for radicalism that will spread chaos through the Middle East and will endanger the peace of the kingdom with Israel.
Reuters contributed to this report.
