{"id":16538,"date":"2025-01-26T13:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T07:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=16538"},"modified":"2025-01-26T13:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T07:50:12","slug":"trump-floats-plan-to-just-clean-out-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-floats-plan-to-just-clean-out-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats plan to ‘just clean out’ Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump floated a plan Saturday to “just clean out” Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory in a bid to create Middle East peace.<\/p>\n

Describing Gaza as a “demolition site” after the Israel-Hamas war, Trump said he had spoken to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about the issue and expected to talk to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“I’d like Egypt to take people. And I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.<\/p>\n

“You’re talking about probably a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing. You know, over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts that site. And I don’t know, something has to happen.”<\/p>\n

The vast majority of Gaza’s 2.4 million people have been displaced, often multiple times, by the war that began with Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

Trump said moving Gaza’s inhabitants could be “temporarily or could be long term.”<\/p>\n

“It’s literally a demolition site right now, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there,” added Trump.<\/p>\n

“So I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change.”<\/p>\n

A fragile truce and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas — which was signed on the last day of former US president Joe Biden’s administration but which Trump has claimed credit for — has entered its second week.<\/p>\n

– Bomb shipment released –<\/p>\n

Trump’s new administration has promised “unwavering support” for Israel, without yet laying out details of its Middle East policy.<\/p>\n

Trump confirmed on Saturday that he had ordered the Pentagon to release a shipment of 2,000-lb bombs for Israel which was blocked by his predecessor Biden.<\/p>\n

“We released them. We released them today,” Trump said. “They paid for them and they’ve been waiting for them for a long time.”<\/p>\n

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has left much of the Palestinian territory in ruins, with infrastructure destroyed, and the United Nations estimates reconstruction will take many years.<\/p>\n

In October during his presidential campaign, former real estate developer Trump said that war-torn Gaza could be “better than Monaco” if it was “rebuilt the right way.”<\/p>\n

Trump’s son-in-law and former White House employee Jared Kushner suggested in February that Israel empty Gaza of civilians to unlock the potential of its “waterfront property.”<\/p>\n

For Palestinians, any attempt to move them from Gaza would evoke dark historical memories of what the Arab world calls the “Nakba” or catastrophe — the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel’s creation 75 years ago.<\/p>\n

Israel has denied having any plans to force Gazans to move.<\/p>\n

But some extreme-right members of the Israeli government have publicly supported the idea of Gazans leaving the Palestinian territory en masse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump floated a plan Saturday to “just clean out” Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory in a bid to create Middle East peace. Describing Gaza as a “demolition site” after the Israel-Hamas war, Trump said he had spoken to Jordan’s King Abdullah II about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16539,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16538\/revisions\/16539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}