Trump says the US will take ownership of the Gaza Strip with Israel’s support

Trump says the US will take ownership of the Gaza Strip with Israel’s support


President Donald Trump said alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States would “own” the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas war.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and do a job with it too. We’ll own it,” Trump told reporters at his first joint press conference with a foreign leader at the White House of his second term.

After the causality-heavy war that broke out after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Trump called Gaza a symbol of death and “destruction” and proposed that Palestinians be relocated to nearby Arab states despite protestations. 

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“We’re going develop it,” Trump responded about U.S. plans for Gaza while not taking off the table sending troops to the Middle East.

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