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Trump Wants To Take Over Gaza, Announces 500,000 Dead
• https://www.lewrockwell.com, Moon of AlabamaVia AP:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take "ownership" in redeveloping the area into "the Riviera of the Middle East."
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The provocative comments came as talks are ramping up this week with the promise of surging humanitarian aid and reconstruction supplies to help the people of Gaza recover after more than 15 months of devastating conflict. Now Trump wants to push roughly 1.8 million people to leave the land they have called home and claim it for the U.S., perhaps with American troops.
"The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too," Trump said at an evening news conference with Netanyahu by his side.
The internationally acknowledged Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics' count of the population of Gaza in 2023 was 2,226,544. Trump wants to remove all Palestinians from Gaza and gives their number as 1.7 or 1.8 million:
Reporter: How many people are you thinking need to leave Gaza?
Trump: "All of them. Probably a million seven, maybe a million eight. They'll be settled in areas where they can live a beautiful life." (video)
This is an acknowledgement, by the president of the United States, that the genocidal Zionists have murdered up to 500,000 people in Gaza.
Despite that toll few in Gaza would move voluntarily:
Gazan residents generally want to stay on their land.
Trump did not specify where the new land for Gazans might be found, although he made his comments after repeating his desire for Egypt and Jordan to take in Gaza's residents. Nor did he appear to grapple with the many Gazan residents who would not want to depart their home territory, nor with the practicalities of potentially forcing them to leave it.
"I do see a long-term ownership position, and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East," Trump said.
Asked if U.S. troops would be deployed to take over Gaza, Trump said that "we'll do what's necessary. … We'll take it over and develop it."




