Trump: I Want People in Gaza to Be Safe
'I want to see safety for the people of Gaza. They've gone through hell,', Trump said in remarks to reporters when asked whether he still wants the US to take over Gaza.
In February, Trump said he wants to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, demolish remaining buildings to make way for a Riviera-style development project and place the occupied territory under US "ownership".
The plan was widely rejected by nations around the world, but Trump has continued to raise it sporadically over the course of the past three months.
Trump said on Friday it would probably be known in 24 hours how Palestinian group Hamas would respond to a proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza.
The Israeli army, despite international calls for a ceasefire, has pursued a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 57,100 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since October 2023.
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