A White House official called Gaza a “demolition site” ahead of President Donald Trump‘s meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, predicting it will take more than a decade to rebuild the land.
When pressed on Trump’s proposal that Palestinians be resettled in Egypt and Jordan, the White House official told the Washington Examiner that the president’s priority is ensuring the return of Hamas-held hostages and that the terrorist organization “cannot continue to govern and is out of power.”
“Beyond that, I think the administration will be looking toward building on the end of the Gaza war, ultimately to promote regional normalization, but that’s as far as I’m able to go in terms of how we’re seeing the peace process,” a senior administration official said Tuesday morning.
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