'US ownership of Gaza': Is Donald Trump buying it?

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said that he is committed to buying and owning Gaza, but could give sections of the land to other states in the Middle East to help in the rebuilding effort, as per a report.

Trump made his remarks to reporters aboard Air Force One, Reuters reported.

78-year-old US President said that Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his US takeover plan, describing his proposal in excerpts of an interview released Monday as a "real estate development for the future."


Trump told Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier that "I would own it" and that there could be as many as six different sites for Palestinians to live outside Gaza -- under the plan which the Arab world has rejected.


"No, they wouldn't, because they're going to have much better housing," Trump said when Baier asked if the Palestinians would have the right to return to the war-battered enclave.


"In other words, I'm talking about building a permanent place for them because if they have to return now, it’ll be years before you could ever -- it's not habitable."


Trump first revealed the shock Gaza plan during a joint news conference with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, drawing outrage from Palestinians.


The US president pressed his case for Palestinians to be moved out of Gaza, devastated by the Israel-Hamas war, and for Egypt and Jordan to take them.


In the Fox interview -- which will be broadcast Monday after the first half was screened ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday --Trump said he would build "beautiful communities" for the more than two million Palestinians who live in Gaza.

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Q1. What is the age of Donald Trump?
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Q2. What is Donald Trump's Gaza plan?
A2. 78-year-old US President Donald Trump said that Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his US takeover plan, describing his proposal in excerpts of an interview released Monday as a "real estate development for the future."