Trump reaffirms plan for US takeover of Gaza
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
US President Donald Trump has restated his plan for a US takeover of the Gaza Strip, after his idea was rejected by Palestinians and leaders around the world on Wednesday. Writing on social media, Trump said Gaza, "would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting." We speak to a former foreign minister of Jordan about the idea and an Israeli politician.
Also in the programme: European Union scientists say the world has just experienced the hottest January on record; and reggae legend Bob Marley's birthday. He would have been 80 today.
(Photo: The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US President Donald Trump during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, 04 February 2025. Credit: Photo by Shawn Thew /POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to live from the BBC World Service Studios in London. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Tim Franks. The Israeli army has received fresh orders from its Minister of Defence. |
| 0:16.2 | Make preparations to enable Palestinians in Gaza to leave the enclave voluntarily. |
| 0:22.1 | Israel Katz said that Gaza's residents should be allowed the freedom to exit and emigrate as is |
| 0:26.8 | the practice anywhere around the world. The minister was speaking after Donald Trump's |
| 0:31.8 | extraordinary intervention a couple of days ago that the entire 2 million plus population of |
| 0:36.8 | Gaza should be relocated while |
| 0:38.4 | the territory be turned by the United States into what he called the Riviera of the Middle East. |
| 0:44.5 | Mr. Trump has been expanding on his vision on social media earlier this morning, Washington time. |
| 0:51.3 | We voiced up part of his comments. |
| 0:53.6 | The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting. |
| 0:59.3 | The Palestinians, people like Chuck Schumer, would have already been resettled in far safer |
| 1:04.3 | and more beautiful communities with new and modern homes in the region. They would actually |
| 1:09.5 | have a chance to be happy, safe and free. |
| 1:12.8 | The US, working with great development teams from all over the world, |
| 1:17.2 | would slowly and carefully begin the construction |
| 1:19.8 | of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on earth. |
| 1:25.9 | No soldiers by the US would be needed. Stability for the region |
| 1:30.0 | would reign. It is a plan which has drawn praise from some in Israel, condemnation from many |
| 1:35.6 | other places around the world as fanciful, dangerous and illegal. Nowhere more so than in Gaza itself. |
| 1:42.9 | Abia Barakat is an English lecturer, lecturer who lives in Gaza City, |
| 1:47.3 | and has been speaking to us here on New Saar. |
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