Above Air Force One (AP) – President Donald Trump He said on Saturday that he wants to see that Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip – possibly out of the population so much. Virtual clean slate to “just clean”.
During a 20 -minute question and answer session with journalists in Air Force One on Saturday, Trump also said he had eliminated his predecessor after sending a 2,000 pound bomb to Israel. This ends a point of pressure that aims to reduce civilian casualties. Israel’s war with Hamas In Gaza, which has now been stopped by a tough ceasefire.
“We released them today,” Trump said about the bombs. “They had been waiting for them for a long time.” Asked why he lifted the ban on the bombs, Trump replied, “Because he bought them.”
Trump has built his political career around being a supporter of Israel. About his wider vision about Gaza, Trump said he had called with the first day. King Abdullah II The Jordanian president and will talk to the president on Sunday. Abdul Fateh Al -Sisi Of Egypt.
“I want Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You are probably talking about a million people, and we just clean up all this and say, ‘You know, it’s over’.”
Trump said he praised Jordan for successfully accepting Palestinian refugees and said to the king, “I would like to do more work, because I am now watching the whole Gaza Strip, And this is a real mess. “
Such a tremendous migration of people will openly contradict Palestinian identity and a deep connection with Gaza. Nevertheless, Trump said that the part of the world that covers Gaza, has been suffering from “many, many conflicts” for centuries. “Being re -settled can be” temporary or long -term, “he said.
“Something has to happen,” Trump said. “But it’s just a literal destruction place. Almost everything is destroyed, and people are dying there. He added:” So, I would prefer to join some Arab countries, and I will build houses at a different place, where they will be able to live peacefully for change. “
No comment was made immediately from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
Trump has in the past presented unconventional ideas about the future of Gaza. After inaugurating Monday, he suggested that Gaza “has to be rebuilt in a different way.”
The new president then added, “Gaza is interesting. This is an extraordinary place on the sea. The best weather, you know, everything is good. That’s it, some beautiful things can be done with it, but it is very interesting.
Meanwhile, its re -supply of large bombs is a break with the then President Joe Biden, who stopped Israel in May as an attempt to prevent Israel from attacking all kinds of attacks on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. It was. A month later, Israel took control of the city, but after the majority of a million citizens living in Rafah or asylum seemed to escape.
Biden told CNN in May that “citizens in Gaza have been killed as a result of bombs and other methods that they chase population centers.” “I made it clear that if they go to Rafah … I am not providing weapons that have historically been used to deal with cities, to deal with cities, to deal with this problem. Have. “
Biden also had 1,700 500 pounds of bombs that were packed for Israel in the same shipment, but weeks later the bombs were delivered.
Trump’s move comes when he celebrates the first phase of a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, which has stopped the fighting and some hostages in Gaza in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners under Israeli detained Israeli hostages. I have seen the release. The second most difficult phase of the agreement is yet to begin, resulting in the release of all the hostages under Hamas detained and the fighting for the fight.
The Israeli government has threatened to resume its war against Hamas – which launched a mass attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 – if the rest of the hostages were not released.
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Miller reported from Washington.
