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Donald Trump said that the Gaza Strip will be delivered to the United States by Israel only after the fighting has stopped in the war -torn lands and that no American forces will be needed to maintain stability.
The US President issued his latest announcement about the proposal to assume responsibility Gaza On Thursday, a day after the allies at home, in the Middle East and Europe, intercepted its plans, the White House sought to alleviate fears of long military intervention.
“The Gaza Strip will be delivered to the United States by Israel at the end of the fighting,” Trump said. In a publication On the social truth platform. He added that the Palestinian people “would have already resettled in safer and more beautiful societies, with new and modern homes, in the region.”
He said that the United States, which works with “all over the world” teams, “will start slowly and carefully build what will become one of the greatest developments and the most exciting of its kind on Earth.”
Trump's initial announcement on Tuesday that the United States will take over Gaza and use force if necessary, a stir in the Arab world, with officials from all over the region warning that any Palestinian displacement will penetrate international law and regional instability of fuel.
He also caused criticism from some of his local allies, as some Republicans said that it had moved away from his “first America” agenda and his long -term objection to the United States' interference in foreign wars “endless”.
However, Israeli officials welcomed the idea, as Israel Defense Minister Katz said on Thursday morning that he ordered the army to prepare a plan that would allow the invasion to leave “voluntarily”. Katz said this would include options to go out through the ground, the sea and the air, but it did not give more details.
Ha Hiller, an older colleague at the Royal United Services Institute, said that the Katz plan for the presence of the Palestinians is leaving Gaza, which increased pressure on Egypt and was a “clear signal” to Cairo and the Palestinians and public opinion in Israel.
He said: “The Israeli government believes that they have some momentum with Trump, but they are not sure how to continue pressure to displace the Palestinians from Gaza.” “It maintains pressure and excludes any kind of political process for the Palestinians. This is related to rearranging goalkeeper and maintaining the balance of everyone.”
