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Last Updated:February 05, 2025, 07:08 IST
Trump did not rule out sending troops to Gaza and described his vision for the Strip as an "international, unbelievable peace". Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump's "outside the box" thinking.
US President Donald Trump with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Tuesday. (Reuters)
In a shocking announcement, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States will “take over" the Gaza Strip and permanently re-settle Palestinians, after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site," Trump said, without offering details about how he would manage the Gaza takeover or manage the war-torn territory.
Trump’s surprise plan followed his earlier proposal for the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries. He called the Palestinian enclave – where the first phase of a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire is in effect – a “demolition site."
The US President’s audacious plan to take control of Gaza and resettle Palestinians would shatter decades of US policy towards the Israel-Palestine conflict and threatens to upend the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which claimed the lives of 1,200 people in Israel and over 46,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
Location :Washington D.C., United States of America (USA)
First Published:February 05, 2025, 06:50 IST
News world Trump Says US Will 'Take Over' Gaza Strip, Permanently Resettle Palestinians
