Aftermath of a decisive Israeli airstrike in Gaza Oct 9 2023, two days after Hamas invaded Israeli cities / Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Worthy News) – U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz announced Wednesday that President Donald J. Trump’s plan to “take over Gaza” was intended “to pressure” neighboring Arab nations to propose their own solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
He made clear that Trump’s vision for the U.S. to control Gaza would eventually improve the lives of Palestinians. “You have literally nearly two million people living in a place that has thousands and thousands of unexploded ordinance and bombs. It is in some places like a minefield,” Waltz told U.S. broadcaster CBS.
“You have buildings that are collapsing and unsafe. You have no sewage, no running water. It is becoming completely unlivable in this war that Hamas started on October 7,” he warned.
The security advisor called it “despicable that groups like Hamas, al-Qaida, [Islamic State, also known as] ISIS, literally sacrifice the lives and livelihoods of their own people to achieve some kind of biological gain.”
He said that President Trump had been thinking about taking over Gaza since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people, including babies and the outbreak of war.
“You know everybody’s hearts break for the Palestinian people across the region, and rightly so. But he [Trump] is not seeing any realistic solutions on how those miles and miles and miles of debris are going to be cleared,” Waltz said.
“How those essentially unexploded bombs are going to be removed? How this people physically are going to live for the at least a decade if not longer that it is going to take to do this?”
‘REALISTIC SOLUTION’
He added: “So the fact that nobody has a realistic solution” prompted Trump to put “some very bold new fresh ideas out on the table.”
However, “I don’t think he should be criticized in any way. I think it is going to bring the entire region to come with their own solutions if they don’t like Mr. Trump’s solutions,” the security advisor noticed.
Yet, he warned that “Hamas cannot stay there. And we are going to support the Israeli government to defend themselves.”
Several Middle East nations have rejected Trump’s plan, which would also include sending Palestinians to nearby countries.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar say they do not support the U.S. taking over Gaza and remain committed to the creation of a Palestinian state.
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