President Donald Trump said the United States “will take over” from the Gaza Strip and that the Palestinians should permanently leave the enclave in the strongest indication, to this day that he wants the population 2.2 million things resettle in countries like Egypt and Jordan.
Speaking while he was performing with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House on Tuesday, Trump said that “all” the Palestinians in Gaza should “be resettled”.
“The United States will take control of the Gaza Strip, and we will also do a job with. We have it and will be responsible for the dismantling of all the dangerous unplodced bombs and other weapons on the site, “he said after the meeting, speaking alongside Netanyahu.
When asked if he would send us troops to Gaza, Trump said, “We will do what is necessary. . . We are going to take this place, we will develop it, we will create thousands of thousands of jobs and it will be something of which all the Middle East can be very proud. »»
Trump said that he was planning that “representatives from around the world” living in Gaza, “the Palestinians too,” he said, adding that he imagined that Gaza could be “the riviera of the Middle East”.
His proposal would upset decades of American policy and fuel indignation in the Arab world, where the Washington allies have long warned of the forced displacement of the Palestinians.
Netanyahu, speaking alongside Trump, said her proposal “was worth paying attention.”
“He sees a different future for this field which has been at the center of so much terrorism,” said Netanyahu. “We are talking about it. He explores it with his people, with his staff. I think it’s something that could change history. »»
Egypt and Jordan have already rejected Trump’s plans to reinstall the Palestinians outside Gaza after the American president last month said it was time to “clean” the enclave.
Trump said on Tuesday that he thought that leaders in Cairo and Amman, who both receive significant amounts of American aid, “would open their hearts and give us the type of land we need to do it and that the people can live in harmony and peace ”.
The Arabs consider these movements as in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their houses or fled in the fighting that accompanied the foundation of Israel. The Palestinians refer to this period like Nakba, or disaster.
The forced displacement of the Palestinians would face the Western allies of the United States, who had long supported a two-state solution to the prolonged Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Exactly what the American control of the Gaza Strip could look like was not clear on Tuesday evening.
Jonathan Panikoff, former senior American intelligence responsible for the Atlantic Council, said that “would likely require a commitment of several decades of tens of thousands of American troops” and “would” bring the Arab leaders to mind and the Rue Les Registrations Bâtiment de l’Et-nation-nationale in Iraq and Afghanistan ”.
The king of Jordan Abdullah will meet Trump next week in Washington to assert his cause against the resettlement of the Palestinians outside Gaza.
Israel has reduced a large part of the strip densely populated in a wasteland with rupture of rubble since he launched a fierce reprisal offensive after the attack on October 7, 2023 in Hamas.
The Arab and European powers hope that a fragile cease-fire and hostage between Israel and the Palestinian militant group will lead to a permanent end of war and will allow the reconstruction of the starting band.
But Trump said, “If we can find the right land, or many land, and build very beautiful places with a lot of money in the region. . . I think it would be much better than returning to Gaza, who only had decades and decades of death. »»
Trump also signed a memorandum on Tuesday which orders his government to impose “maximum pressure” on Iran, shortly before meeting Netanyahu, who considers the nuclear program of Tehran as an existential threat to Israel.
The president later said that the order “would apply the most aggressive possible sanctions, would lead to the Iranian oil exports to zero and decrease the capacity of the regime to finance terrorism throughout the region”.
US officials have described this decision as a tool to resume Tehran at the negotiating table to discuss his nuclear program.
Trump said it was “unhappy” to sign the memorandum but had no choice. “It’s very simple. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, “he added.
As part of the effort, Trump said that he was trying to slow down Iran’s oil exports, saying that the United States had “the right” to block the sale of Iranian crude to other nations.
Brent’s gross term contracts exchanged around $ 76 per barrel after signing the memorandum, well above $ 74.15 on Tuesday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has a greater desire to agree with a negotiated regulation for weeks to guarantee relief of sanctions and facilitate internal economic pressure.
His government also clarified that he wanted to avoid military confrontation with the United States and Israel.
During his first mandate, Trump set up a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, abandoning a 2015 nuclear agreement that Tehran signed with the world powers and imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
In response, Tehran has increased its nuclear activity and now enriches uranium near the level of weapons.
