US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz tells Fox News that Trump’s plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza is “a very practical idea”, Al Jazeera reports.
In an interview with Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, Walz said: “He… looks at the death of destruction in Gaza. He knows as a builder, it’s going to take years to clean that up. He’s asking a very practical question: How does two million people live for a decade in the middle of all of that?”
The Trump adviser suggested that Palestinians, if offered, would take the chance to leave Gaza.
“As President Trump said, have they ever really been offered? And who wouldn’t take the opportunity to take their family somewhere else with some decent housing, and a place to live?” Waltz said. “Then he says let’s stop the definition of insanity of pouring billions and rebuilding Gaza just to see terrorists attack all over again.”
Palestinians in Gaza, however, have rejected Trump’s proposal, describing it as ethnic cleansing and saying they want to remain on their land. Arab nations, too, have opposed it and presented a counter-proposal to rebuild Gaza without relocating its residents.