'What is Gaza?': Trump says Palestinians would 'love' to leave devastated enclave
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Palestinians would "love" to leave Gaza and live anywhere else if given an option, calling the war ravaged territory "a demolition site". Trump previously touted a plan for Palestinians to move to Egypt or Jordan. He spoke as he was due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to discuss the truce with Hamas.
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Palestinians would "love" to leave their embattled homeland in Gaza and live elsewhere if given an option.
They would "love to leave Gaza," he told reporters as he signed a raft of initiatives at the White House. "I would think that they would be thrilled."
"I don't know how they could want to stay. It's a demolition site," he said, more than 15 months after US ally Israel launched a punishing invasion of the territory in retaliation for attacks launched by Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Trump spoke as he was due to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to discuss the truce with Hamas. He is likely to urge his ally to stick to the deal, parts of which have yet to be finalized.
"Well they may have said that, but a lot of people have said things to me," Trump told the journalists at the White House Tuesday.
But Trump appeared undeterred.
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