During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month, Trump laid out the extraordinary plan, stating: 'The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too.' 

'We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site ... level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings,' the president added. 

While the proposal has sparked concern, Palestinians living in war-ravaged Gaza said they are ready to leave. 

'I won't stay in Gaza because there will be disease and our situation will be miserable,' a man standing near Gaza's coastline told The Center of Peace Communications in an interview that aired Tuesday.

'Very bad. Anyone who says otherwise is just fooling themselves.' 

Another man who stood before the endless rubble, said: 'If I leave this country today, I'll be better off. 

'You want to put me in this rubble and tell me to live here? How can I live here?

'I'm for resettlement. It's not forced migration where they'd kick us out of our country. We're the ones who want to leave,' he added. 

Another Palestinian said that with the state of the land right now, 'even dogs can't live in the north.' 

'There's no water, no electricity, no infrastructure at all,' he added. 

Another man, with his face blurred, also stood in front of piles of rubble as he pointed to a camp for displaced people. 

'People may be fine with staying in a tent for a couple of days, or even months, but when this becomes permanent instead of temporary, the situation grows unbearable,' he explained. 

A woman, who also had her face blurred, said that people in Gaza 'feel like prisoners' who are stuck in a 'state of frustration and despair.' 

'We're just civilians. We're not part of Hamas, and we don't want to die,' she continued.