Middle East leaders condemn Trump’s idea to remove Palestinians and take control of Gaza
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. President Trump's proposal to, quote, take over Gaza and relocate |
| 0:06.8 | two million Palestinians to other countries is being condemned across the region. The announcement |
| 0:12.1 | came at a joint press conference with Israel's prime minister yesterday, where President Trump |
| 0:16.8 | promised to turn the war-ravaged area into a, quote, Riviera of the Middle East. |
| 0:22.3 | William Brangham reports. |
| 0:24.6 | The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. |
| 0:27.1 | Standing beside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, |
| 0:31.1 | President Trump issued what amounts to a thunder clap across the Middle East. |
| 0:35.6 | Gaza will be rebuilt, but under U.S. ownership. |
| 0:39.3 | We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. |
| 0:46.3 | The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated places on Earth. |
| 0:50.3 | But for 15 months, Israeli bombs have turned most of Gaza into a gray ghost town of dust and |
| 0:57.5 | debris. Israel's air campaign, one of the largest in modern warfare, flattened entire neighborhoods. |
| 1:04.6 | Israel says Hamas's elaborate tunnel network and the group's practice of embedding its soldiers |
| 1:10.6 | inside civilian areas meant |
| 1:13.1 | they had no other choice. |
| 1:15.3 | But President Trump, who made his name as a New York real estate developer, said he will |
| 1:20.0 | transform this area into something magnificent. |
| 1:23.8 | I don't want to be cute. |
| 1:25.2 | I don't want to be a wise guy, but the Riviera of the Middle East, |
| 1:28.3 | this could be something that could be so magnificent. |
| 1:32.6 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who led Israel's war in Gaza, |
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