WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump mentioned Palestinians would don’t have any proper of return to Gaza beneath his US takeover plan, describing his proposal in excerpts of an interview launched Monday (Feb 10) as a “actual property improvement for the long run”.
Trump informed Fox Information Channel’s Bret Baier that “I might personal it” and that there could possibly be as many as six completely different websites for Palestinians to stay exterior Gaza – beneath the plan which the Arab world has rejected.
“No, they would not, as a result of they’ll have a lot better housing,” Trump mentioned when Baier requested if the Palestinians would have the precise to return to the war-battered enclave.
“In different phrases, I am speaking about constructing a everlasting place for them as a result of in the event that they need to return now, it will be years earlier than you possibly can ever – it is not liveable.”
Trump first revealed the shock Gaza plan throughout a joint information convention with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, drawing outrage from Palestinians.
The US president pressed his case for Palestinians to be moved out of Gaza, devastated by the Israel-Hamas warfare, and for Egypt and Jordan to take them.
Within the Fox interview – which shall be broadcast Monday after the primary half was screened forward of the Tremendous Bowl on Sunday -Trump mentioned he would construct “lovely communities” for the greater than two million Palestinians who stay in Gaza.
“Might be 5, six, could possibly be two. However we’ll construct secure communities, slightly bit away from the place they’re, the place all of this hazard is,” added Trump.
“Within the meantime, I might personal this. Consider it as an actual property improvement for the long run. It might be a ravishing piece of land. No massive cash spent.”
