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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit

a man in a suit at a podium
Donald Trump unveiled his surprise plan for the US to take over Gaza, without providing specifics, at a joint press conference with the visiting Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Donald Trump has vowed that the US will “take over” war-ravaged Gaza and “own it”, effectively endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, in an announcement shocking even by the standards of his norm-shattering presidency.

Trump, who has previously threatened Greenland and Panama and suggested that Canada should become the 51st state, added Gaza to his expansionist agenda, claiming that it could become the “Riviera of the Middle East”. He declined to rule out sending US troops to make it happen.

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