United States President Donald Trump said there are “many” countries willing to receive residents of Gaza
On Monday, Trump again asked the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and want to go out to be taken to safer places.
He talked about this during a meeting with journalists at the Oval Hall, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“For years and years, I only hear about deaths, hamas and problems,” said Trump.
“If we take the Palestinians and take them to different countries, and there are many countries that would accept it, we would have a zone of freedom, a place where people would not be killed every day,” he added.
Trump had already talked about this plan in February, also alongside Netanyahu.
The Israeli Prime Minister supports the idea and said on Monday: “What the president is proposing is to give people a choice.
Gaza residents were arrested.
In other places of conflict, such as Ukraine or Syria, people could leave.
What’s the problem with giving a choice? This allows Gaza residents to decide where they want to go.”
Netanyahu also remembered that rebuilding Gaza will take many years.
An important authority from Israel told JNS newspaper on April 4 that research shows that many Palestinians in Gaza want to leave.
“Even before Israel resumed military actions, 60% said they wanted to leave.
Of these, 40% do not want to go back, and 20% want to leave, but with the possibility of returning.
That means more than 1 million people who want to leave Gaza,” the authority explained.
Research also shows that Israelis supports Trump’s proposal.
The biggest challenge has been to find countries willing to receive residents of Gaza.
Even so, Netanyahu said “some countries are responding to Trump’s view.
We’re working on it and I hope to have good news soon.”
He did not disclose which countries, but Danny Danon, which was again Israel’s ambassador to the UN in 2024 (had already held the position between 2015 and 2020), said in December 2023 that Nations from South America and Africa showed interest in accepting Palestinians in exchange for money.
Danon also thinks that Arab countries should help.
“They have an obligation to support the Palestinians.
That help, instead of just making fiery speeches,” he said.
So far, the Arab countries have not accepted Trump’s proposal and suggested plans to rebuild Gaza keeping residents there.
Steve Witkoff, a special US envoy to the Middle East, gave an interview in March to host Tucker Carlson and said these reconstruction plans make no sense.
“It’s important to look at the facts when making these decisions,” he said, noting that Gaza is a very dangerous place to live.
“How are we going to put people back in a war -filled weapon zone? Or where can a child fall into a 12, 15 or 18 meter hole and no one not even realize”” Witkoff asked.
“Who would do such a thing? If we had buildings in these conditions in New York, they would be surrounded by yellow ribbons and no one could enter,” he compared.
Witkoff estimates that he would take 15 to 20 years to rebuild Gaza.
He agrees with Trump that old solutions for Gaza did not work, creating a war cycle, reconstruction and more war.
“It makes no sense,” he said.
“The president began to say, ‘Maybe we need to think in a different way.'”
Published in 04/08/2025 10h32
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