US President Donald Trump has once again raised entitlement to the Gaza Strip. “This is an incredibly important piece of real estate,” he said during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to Trump, it would be a “good thing” to have a “peace force like the United States there that checked and owned the Gaza strip”. At the beginning of February, Trump had shocked a similar statement at a press conference on Netanyahus. At that time, he said that the United States could take over the Gaza Strip, plan the war -destroyed area, rebuild and transform it into a “Riviera of the Middle East”. The more than two million Palestinians would have to be resettled. Trump had brought Egypt and Jordan into play, which rejected such a scenario. According to experts, a compulsory settlement would violate international law. Trump has now said that for years he has heard “only killings, Hamas and problems” in the area. Israel once “obsessed” the “property by the sea” and then handed in on behalf of peace – but that failed in his view. “I don’t understand why Israel has ever given it up? It belonged to Israel,” said Trump. “It should never have been, really never allowed to be handed over.” Netanyahu spoke in Washington of “a brave vision” of the US president. He advocated “giving people in Gaza the free decision where they want to go”. However, critics in Israel also have doubts as to whether the decision would be voluntary in view of the great destruction in the Gaza Strip. France’s President Emmanuel Macron joined the rejection of a permanent resettlement of Palestinians with clear words by Egypt and Jordan. Macron, Egypt’s head of state Abdel Fatah Al -Sisi and Jordania’s King Abdullah II, also spoke to Trump on the phone at her three -way summit in Cairo. The Élysée Palace said that they would have emphasized the need for an armistice and the restoration of access for aid deliveries.
