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 announced 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.
Trump didn’t provide details on how the U.S. might come to own the Hamas-controlled area and redevelop it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” When asked whether he’d deploy U.S. troops to transform the 140-square-mile Palestinian territory, Trump said,…
