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

Donald Trump, the president of the United States, has reiterated his controversial plan to “buy and own” the war-torn enclave.

Trump said that other Middle Eastern nations could be in charge of managing Gaza’s redevelopment and that it should be regarded as a “big real estate site” as a “big real estate site.”

Trump said while traveling to New Orleans to watch the Super Bowl that “we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it” and that “we may give it to other states in the Middle East to do it.”

“But we’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back. There’s nothing to move back into. The location is a “dead site.”

Despite his suggestion, which sparked backlash from Palestinian representatives and a large portion of the international community, Trump added that displaced Palestinians would prefer not to go back to Gaza.

The only reason they’re considering returning to Gaza is that they don’t have an alternative, if we could find them a home in a safer area. When they have an alternative, they don’t want to return to Gaza”, the US president said.

Hamas, the Palestinian group that governs Gaza, reiterated its opposition to Trump’s proposal on Sunday, calling his latest remarks “absurd”.

“Gaza is not a property that can be bought and sold, and it is an integral part of our occupied Palestinian land”, Izzat al-Risheq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a statement shared on Telegram.

Al-Risheq remarked that “dealing with the Palestinian issue with the mentality of a real estate dealer is a recipe for failure.”

“All deportation and displacement plans will be thwarted by our Palestinian people.” Gaza belongs to its people”.

Earlier on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Trump’s proposal as “revolutionary” and “creative” while addressing a cabinet meeting held hours after his return from Washington, DC, where he held talks with the US president.

Trump’s proposal to Washington take control of Gaza on Tuesday stunned Palestinians and the world by its outrageous redevelopment plan, which he claimed would make it “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

The US president reacted to his suggestion the following day by insisting that any Palestinian resettlement would be temporary. Officials from his administration tried to dampen the response.

Before entering politics, Trump, a real estate developer, has provided little information about how his proposed legislation would be implemented, which would present significant practical difficulties in addition to raising ethical and legal issues.

Trump later stated that no American soldiers would be required to carry out the plan after initially saying he was open to the possibility of sending the US military into Gaza.

Despite Trump’s suggestion that Palestinians could be resettled in “other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts,” neighboring nations like Egypt and Jordan have categorically rejected calls to take refugees there.

On Sunday, &nbsp, Saudi Arabia condemned a suggestion by Netanyahu that the kingdom’s land be used to establish a Palestinian state.