Trump says US will βtake overβ Gaza: President Donald Trump said that the US βwill take overβ Gaza and that he wonβt rule out sending US troops to secure American ownership.
Israelβs far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich commended a plan presented by United States President Donald Trump to remove Palestinians from Gaza and take ownership of the strip.
βWe will work to permanently bury the dangerous idea of a Palestinian state,β Smotrich said in a video statement.
Smotrich had threatened to leave Israeli Prime Ministerβs Benjamin Netanyahuβs government after a ceasefire deal was agreed with Hamas last month. Instead, he remained in government after receiving what he said were assurances that Israel will return to war in Gaza.
βI made this decision based on intimate knowledge of the behind-the-scenes actions in recent months and on my partnership in shaping our plans for continuing the campaign on all fronts. And believe meβthis is just the beginning,β he said.
The minister, a settler himself, leads Religious Zionism, a far-right party pushing for Jewish settlement in Gaza.
βThe plan presented yesterday by President Trump is the true response to October 7. Those who carried out the most horrific massacre on our land will find themselves losing their land forever,β he said.
Update:
Russia has rejected US President Donald Trumpβs plan toΒ βtake over Gaza.βΒ A two-state solution is the only way to settle the Middle East conflict, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has reiterated.
