Source: Euronews
Security & Justice
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The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that it had launched an interceptor missile over the Mount Hermon area to take down an Israeli Air Force drone that had malfunctioned. According to the Israeli military, the drone was deliberately shot down to prevent it from crashing in Lebanon.
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Opinion
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Sports
First Place on the Line in Madrid Derby as Real and Atletico Squabble Over Refereeing
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Zhou Guanyu Joins Ferrari as a Reserve Driver for 2025 F1 Season
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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Wednesday 5 February 2025 09:46:31
Trump Says He Wants the United States to Take Control of Gaza
The US President said he wouldn't rule out deploying US troops to support reconstruction of Gaza after permanently resettling displaced Palestinians outside the war-torn territory.
President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to take ownership of the Gaza Strip and redevelop it after resettling Palestinian people in other countries.
The president did not immediately offer details on how the US would manage the site and what it would do with it.
“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,” Trump told reporters at a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
He said the US would work to economically develop the area after cleaning out the destroyed buildings.
Trump made the comments following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, where the two leaders are discussed the fragile ceasefire and hostage deal in Israeli-Hamas conflict.
“I don’t think people should be going back," Trump said. “You can’t live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy."
Trump's comments came as he and top advisers made the case that a three-to-five-year timeline for reconstruction of the war-torn territory, as laid out in a temporary truce agreement, is not viable.
“You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza,” Trump added. "This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.”
Egypt and Jordan, as well as other Arab nations, have flatly rejected calls by Trump to relocate the territory's 2.3 million Palestinians during post-war rebuilding of the territory.
But senior administration officials continue to press the case for relocation of Palestinians on humanitarian grounds.
“To me, it is unfair to explain to Palestinians that they might be back in five years,” Trump’s Mideast envoy, Steve Witkoff, told reporters. “That’s just preposterous.”
The White House's focus on reconstruction comes as the nascent truce between Israel and Hamas hangs in the balance.
