Trump says US is ‘committed to buying and owning Gaza’

President Donald Trump said he was “committed to buying and possessing” the Gaza Strip and transporting two million Palestinians living there, despite the global condemnation of the plan that was revealed last week.

He told reporters that he may allow the Middle East countries to participate in rebuilding parts of the region and that he will make sure that the Palestinian refugees “will live beautifully.”

Both the Palestinian Authority and the Armed Group Hamas, which caused its 16 -month war with Israel in widespread destruction in Gaza, reiterated that the Palestinian land is “not for sale.”

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s proposal as “revolutionary and creative”.

Three weeks come from a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, where Hamas released some of the Israeli hostages that they keep in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 grooves were taken.

More than 48,180 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.

Most Gaza population has been displaced several times, and approximately 70 % of buildings are estimated at damage or destruction, health care, water, sanitation, and image, have collapsed, and there is a lack of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.

Trump reiterated his pledge to take over Gaza after the war as he flies to New Orleans in the Air Force to watch Super Paul on Sunday.

“I am committed to buying and possessing Gaza. As much as we rebuild it, we may present it to other countries in the Middle East to build sections of it. Others may do so through our care. He said:” Owning it, take it, and make sure that Hamas does not return, “without that He explains who will buy Gaza from and how the United States has.

“There is nothing to return to. The place is a demolition site … the rest will be demolished,” he added. “But we will enter a good site for future development by someone.”

Trump said that people from all over the world will be able to move to Gaza and promise “the auspices of the Palestinians.”

“We will make sure they live beautifully, in harmony and peace, and that they have not killed.”

“They don’t want to return to Gaza. They only return because they have no alternative,” he added.

The President also once again expressed his confidence that he could persuade Egypt and the neighboring Jordan to help, despite his previous year’s rejection of his requests to capture refugees from Gaza.

The King of Jordan, Abdullah, is scheduled to meet in Washington on Tuesday, while the President of Israel said that Trump will hold talks with Egyptian President Abdel -Fahm El -Sisi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the coming days.

The Israeli Prime Minister praised Trump’s proposal at the Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday.

“For a whole year, we were told” the next day ” [Palestine Liberation Organisation]Netanyahu said that the Palestinian Authority should be in the tape.

“President Trump came with a completely different vision, much better for the State of Israel, which is a revolutionary and creative vision, which we discuss. He is very determined to implement it. This also opens many possibilities for us.”

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Palestinian Authority: “The rights of our people and our lands are not for sale, exchange, or bargaining.”

“The Israeli government and Prime Minister Netanyahu are trying to cover up the crimes of genocide, the forced displacement and the annexation they committed against our people,” he added.

“For this purpose, they continue to enhance slogans and positions separate from the political reality and away from the requirements of political solutions to the conflict.”

A political official – who prohibits him as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries – said that Trump’s statements were “ridiculous” and reflected “a deep ignorance of Palestine and the region.”

“Gaza is not a king who is sold and authenticated. It is an integral part of our occupied Palestinian land,” he said.

The United Nations Office for Human Rights has warned that any forced transfer in or deporting people from the occupied territories is completely prohibited under international law.

The Palestinians also fear the repetition of the Nakba, or the “disaster”, when hundreds of thousands of their homes fled and during the war that followed the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

It ended with many of these refugees in Gaza, where they and their grandchildren are three quarters of the population. Another 900,000 registered refugees live in the West Bank, while 3.4 million people live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the United Nations.

German adviser Olaf Scholls also criticized Trump’s plan on Sunday, describing it as a “scandal.”

He said during the pre -televised discussion: “I say this with the Egyptian government, with the Jordanian government and with people who can rely on human dignity: the transfer of population is unacceptable and against international law.”

Palestinian officials and Arab countries also condemned the comments made by Netanyahu in a television interview last week.

The Israeli journalist was discussing efforts to normalize diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia when he said by mistake that there would be no progress without the establishment of a “Saudi state.”

“Palestinian state.” Netanyahu corrected it, before adding: “What you did not want to be the Palestinian state in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? They have a lot of land.”

Egypt described a “reckless” proposal and something “that violates Saudi sovereignty”, while Jordan said it was “a flagrant violation of international law.”

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that it appreciates “condemnation, rejection and complete rejection announced by the brotherly countries towards what Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned regarding the displacement of the Palestinian people from their land.”