The two leaders boast a contentious suggestion of relocating Palestinians, who are being bombed and internally displaced by Israel, out of Gaza into other nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken United States President Donald Trump to the White House, with the two leaders vowing to repeat their contentious suggestion to forcibly remove thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
Trump received Netanyahu for dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday, while indirect discussions in Qatar between Hamas and Israel on US-supported plans for a 60-day truce to end the 22-month Gaza war seemed to gain some traction.
Netanyahu informed journalists who attended the session that the US and Israel were making efforts with other nations to provide the Palestinians with a “better future”, implying that the Gaza residents could relocate to neighbouring countries.
If individuals wish to remain, they may remain, but if they wish to depart, they ought to be in a position to do so. It should not be a prison. It should be an open centre and provide people with a free choice,” Netanyahu stated.
“We’re consulting very closely with the United States regarding identifying nations that will endeavour to fulfil what they always claim, that they wanted to provide the Palestinians with a better future. I believe we’re getting close to identifying several nations.”
Trump, who made headlines at the start of the year when he suggested relocating Palestinians and assuming control of the Strip to transform it into a “Riviera of the Middle East”, said there had been “great cooperation” on the issue from “surrounding countries”.
This is what the Israelis have been describing for a while, referring to it as the ‘voluntary migration’ of Palestinians out of their homelands. But naturally, this has been denounced as ethnic cleansing,” Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reported from Amman, Jordan.
