Trump says Gazans need “another beautiful location”

US President Donald Trump reiterated Wednesday his plans to ‘clean out’ the Gaza Strip, in a meeting with ‘Israeli’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who became the first foreign leader to visit the White House in Trump’s second term.

“I think that Gaza is a demolition site right now. If you look at Gaza, there’s hardly a building standing and the ones that are are going to collapse. You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location, a location that’s going to make people happy,” Trump said.

“This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes, and then they can be happy enough, not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza. Right now you have in Gaza a very dangerous situation in terms of explosives all over the place.”

“It would be my hope that we could do something really nice, really beautiful, where they wouldn’t want to return,” Trump added.

“Why would they want to return? That place has been hell…Gaza is a guarantee they’re going to end up dying. The same thing is going to happen again, over and over again.”

Trump also said the displacement could take place in several areas.

When asked if supports creating a Palestinian State, as he did in his previous term, Trump refused to elaborate.

“Well, a lot of plans change with time…A lot of death has occurred since I left and now came back,” he said.

“Now we are faced with a situation that’s different…in some ways better, in some ways worse.”

For his part, Netanyahu said he supports “getting all the hostages out and meeting all our war goals — that includes destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities and making sure Gaza never poses a threat to Israel again.”

“We will achieve all three,” Netanyahu said.