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full screen US President Donald Trump tells reporters, aboard his presidential plane, that he wants to “clean up” Gaza. Photo: Mark Schiefelbein/AP/TT
Egypt and other Arab countries should accept more Palestinian refugees – and Gaza is “cleaned out”. This is what US President Donald Trump tells reporters.
– Something has to happen, he says.
On Saturday, local time, Trump spoke by phone with the King of Jordan and on Sunday another conversation awaits with the President of Egypt.
– I want him to take people. I would like Egypt to take people, says Donald Trump during a question and answer session aboard the presidential plane Air Force One.
– We are talking about, probably, one and a half million people, and we clean it all up and say “it’s over”, he says, referring to the war-torn Gaza.
According to Trump himself, he praised Jordan for the country’s successful acceptance of Palestinian refugees.
– I would love if you took on more, because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip now and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess, Trump says he told Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Moving Palestinian refugees to neighboring countries could, according to Trump, be either temporary or a long-term solution. But something has to happen, according to the president.
– It is literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything is destroyed and people die there. So I would rather work with some of the Arab countries and build housing in other places, where maybe they can live in peace for once, says Donald Trump.