Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees

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President Donald Trump said Saturday he'd similar to spot Jordan, Egypt and different Arab nations summation the fig of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip — perchance moving retired capable of the colonisation to "just cleanable out" the war-torn country to make a virtual cleanable slate.

During a 20-minute question-and-answer league with reporters aboard Air Force One connected Saturday, Trump besides said he's ended his predecessor's clasp connected sending 907-kilogram bombs to Israel. That lifts a unit constituent that had been meant to trim civilian casualties during Israel's warfare with Hamas successful Gaza that is present halted by a tenuous ceasefire.

"We released them today," Trump said of the bombs. "They've been waiting for them for a agelong time." Asked wherefore helium lifted the prohibition connected those bombs, Trump responded, "Because they bought them."

Trump has built his governmental vocation astir being unapologetically pro-Israel. On his larger imaginativeness for Gaza, Trump said helium had telephone earlier successful the time with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would talk Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.

"I'd similar Egypt to instrumentality people," Trump said. "You're talking astir about apt a cardinal and a fractional people, and we conscionable cleanable retired that full happening and say, 'You know, it's over.'"

Trump said helium complimented Jordan for having successfully accepted Palestinian refugees and that helium told the king, "I'd emotion for you to instrumentality connected more, ‘cause I'm looking astatine the full Gaza Strip close now, and it's a mess. It's a existent mess."

He said of specified a wide question of Palestinians, "it could beryllium impermanent oregon agelong term," adding that the country of the satellite that encompasses Gaza, has "had many, galore conflicts" implicit centuries.

"Something has to happen," Trump said. "But it's virtually a demolition tract close now. Almost everything's demolished, and radical are dying there." He added: "So, I'd alternatively get progressive with immoderate of the Arab nations, and physique lodging successful a antithetic location, wherever they tin possibly unrecorded successful bid for a change."

There was nary contiguous remark from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

Trump has offered nontraditional views connected the aboriginal of Gaza successful the past. He suggested aft helium was inaugurated connected Monday that Gaza has "really got to beryllium rebuilt successful a antithetic way."

The caller president added then, "Gaza is interesting. It's a phenomenal location, connected the sea. The champion weather, you know, everything is good. It's like, immoderate beauteous things could beryllium done with it, but it's precise interesting."

His resuming transportation of ample bombs, meanwhile, is simply a interruption with then-President Joe Biden, who halted their transportation successful May arsenic portion of an effort to support Israel from launching an all-out battle connected the confederate Gaza metropolis of Rafah. A period later, Israel did instrumentality power of the city, but aft the immense bulk of the 1 cardinal civilians that had been surviving oregon sheltering successful Rafah had fled.

"Civilians person been killed successful Gaza arsenic a effect of those bombs and different ways successful which they spell aft colonisation centers," Biden told CNN successful May erstwhile helium held up the weapons. "I made it wide that if they spell into Rafah ... I'm not supplying the weapons that person been utilized historically to woody with Rafah, to woody with the cities, that woody with that problem."

The Biden intermission had besides held up 1,700 227-kilogram bombs that had been packaged successful the aforesaid shipment to Israel, but weeks aboriginal those bombs were delivered.

Trump's enactment comes arsenic helium has celebrated the archetypal signifier of a ceasefire betwixt Hamas and Israel that has paused the warring and seen the merchandise of immoderate hostages held by Hamas successful Gaza successful instrumentality for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Negotiations person yet to statesman successful earnest connected the much hard 2nd signifier of the woody that would yet spot the merchandise of each hostages held by Hamas and an enduring halt to the fighting.

The Israeli authorities has threatened to resume its warfare against Hamas — which launched a monolithic battle against Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023 — if the remaining hostages are not released.