President Donald Trump echoed his previous comments that Gaza may very well be emptied of residents, controlled by the US and redeveloped as a tourist area, claiming it might make the place ‘exciting’.
Today Mr Trump hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II on the White House on Tuesday and reiterated his ‘plan’ to takeover the Gaza Strip.
Mr Trump said the USA could control Gaza ‘under the US authority’, without elaborating what that was.
‘We’re not going to purchase anything. We’re going to have it… and we’ll make it exciting.’
The pair met within the Oval Office, where Mr Trump suggested he wouldn’t withhold US aid to Jordan or countries corresponding to Egypt and other Arab nations in the event that they don’t conform to dramatically increase the number of individuals from Gaza they soak up.
That contradicted the Republican president previously suggesting that holding back aid was a possibility.
King Abdullah was asked repeatedly about Mr Trump’s audacious plan to remake the Middle East but didn’t comment on it.
‘I can let you know about real estate. They’re going to be in love with it,’ Mr Trump, who built a Latest York real estate empire that catapulted him to fame, said of Gaza’s residents, while also insisting that he wouldn’t be involved in development.
Mr Trump has repeatedly proposed the US take control of Gaza and switch it into ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’, with Palestinians within the war-torn territory pushed into neighbouring nations with no right of return to their homes.
Jordan is home to greater than two million Palestinians and, together with other Arab states, has flatly rejected Mr Trump’s plan to relocate civilians from Gaza.
Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said last week that his country’s opposition to Mr Trump’s idea was ‘firm and unwavering’.
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