Trump confirms Palestinians will have no right of return under Gaza takeover plan: Theyre going to have much better housing

President Trump has confirmed that under his controversial development plan for the war-torn Gaza Strip, Palestinians would not be allowed to return to the Hamas-run enclave.“No, they wouldn’t, because they’re going to have much better housing.Much better,” Trump told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier in a clip from the weekend interview that aired Monday morning on “Fox & Friends.”“In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them because if they have to return now, it’ll be years before you could ever — it’s not habitable,” the president went on.

“It would be years before it could happen.”Last week, Trump revealed his aspirations for the US to “take over the Gaza Strip” and develop the coastal land to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” while indicating that “all” of its roughly 2 million current inhabitants would be pushed out to neighboring nations.Both White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Secretary of State Marco Rubio subsequently claimed that Trump merely wanted the Palestinians resettled out of Gaza “temporarily” or for an “interim” period during reconstruction efforts.Reacting to Trump’s plan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News Feb.

5 that Palestinians could “relocate and come back.”“The actual idea of allowing Gazans who want to leave to leave — I mean, what’s wrong with that?” Netanyahu added at the time.“They can leave, they can then come back.”Trump suggested over the weekend that neighboring Arab countries such as Egypt or Jordan could take in the Gazans and that the US might even help foot the bill.“I’m talking about starting to build, and I think I could make a deal with Jordan.

I think I could make a deal with Egypt.You know, we give them billions and billions of dollars a year,” he added to Baier.

Officials from both Egypt and Jordan have rejected Trump’s pitch and Cairo has since announced an...