Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ But to Leave Gaza
Trump backs permanently resettling Gazans — in Jordan, Egypt and ‘other countries’ President Trump said he wanted Palestinians in Gaza to be relocated to a new area.
Throughout the day, Trump stoked controversy by suggesting Palestinians would “love to leave” Gaza, spurring fears he would back an ethnic cleansing campaign.
Trump asked during a sit-down with Netanyahu: “Who would want to go back?”
Responding to questions about his idea of moving Gazans out of the Strip to Arab countries, US President Donald Trump says: 1. "other countries” besides Jordan and Egypt will also accept Palestinians, who will leave Gaza permanently. 2. I think that Gaza is a demolition site right now. 3. If you look at Gaza, there’s hardly a building standing and the ones that are, are going to collapse. 4. You can’t live in Gaza right now. 5. I think we need another location, a location that’s going to make people happy.
It’s all death in Gaza,” he continues, alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This has been happening for years.
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It’s all death.
If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes, and then they can be happy enough, not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.
Right now you have in Gaza a very dangerous situation in terms of explosives all over the place. 1. I believe we can do it in areas where leaders currently say no 2. if Gazans had an alternative “they’d much rather not go back. 3. claims that the “only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is that they have no alternative
