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Trump: I Want People in Gaza to Be Safe

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump: I Want People in Gaza to Be Safe

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, July 3, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President of the United States Donald Trump said on Thursday he wants the people in the Gaza Strip to be safe.

“I want to see safety for the people of Gaza. They’ve gone through hell,”, Trump said in remarks to reporters when asked whether he still wants the US to take over Gaza.

In February, Trump said he wants to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, demolish remaining buildings to make way for a Riviera-style development project and place the occupied territory under US "ownership".

The plan was widely rejected by nations around the world, but Trump has continued to raise it sporadically over the course of the past three months.

Trump said on Friday it would probably be known in 24 hours how Palestinian group Hamas would respond to a proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza.

The Israeli army, despite international calls for a ceasefire, has pursued a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 57,100 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since October 2023.

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Report: Israel Seeks US Help on Deals to Move Palestinians out of Gaza

Palestinians protest against hunger and high prices, amid the Israeli blockade and offensive, in Gaza City, July 18, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj
Palestinians protest against hunger and high prices, amid the Israeli blockade and offensive, in Gaza City, July 18, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj
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Report: Israel Seeks US Help on Deals to Move Palestinians out of Gaza

Palestinians protest against hunger and high prices, amid the Israeli blockade and offensive, in Gaza City, July 18, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj
Palestinians protest against hunger and high prices, amid the Israeli blockade and offensive, in Gaza City, July 18, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj

The director of Israel’s Mossad agency, David Barnea, visited Washington this week seeking US help in convincing countries to take hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, two sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios on Friday.

Barnea told White House envoy Steve Witkoff that Israel has been speaking in particular with Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya.

“In their meeting earlier this week, Barnea told Witkoff that Ethiopia, Indonesia and Libya had expressed openness to receiving large numbers of Palestinians from Gaza,” the two sources said.

Barnea suggested that the US offer incentives to those countries and help Israel convince them.

One source said that Witkoff was non-committal, and it is not clear if the US will actively weigh in on this issue.

In February, US President Donald Trump proposed the removal of all two million Palestinians from Gaza to rebuild the enclave.

But the White House cooled on the idea after getting significant pushback from Arab countries, US officials say, and it hasn't gone anywhere.

Israeli officials say the Trump administration told them that if Israeli Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to pursue this idea, Israel needs to find countries that are willing to take Palestinians from Gaza.

Netanyahu tasked Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency with finding countries that would agree to receive large numbers of Palestinians displaced from the Gaza Strip.