Netanyahu says other countries want to take Gazans in; Trump calls Gaza ‘a death trap’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again lauds US President Donald Trump’s plan to evacuate Gazans while the enclave is reconstructed.

Netanyahu says Gazans are being “locked” in the Strip and not allowed to leave, while it is a conflict zone. “We didn’t lock them in.”

“We are not holding them in,” he says.

He compares it to other conflicts like Ukraine and Syria, where people were allowed to flee the fighting.

Netanyahu says there are positive talks with other countries that want to take in Gazans. He declines to name them.

Trump says it’s so important that Gaza is a “safe field” for Palestinian residents.

People like the vision he set out in his Gaza plan, Trump says, but “there are other concepts too.”

“Gaza should never have been given away by Israel, I don’t know why they did it,” Trump says referring to Israel’s 2005 disengagement from the Strip.

“I do know, because they were promised peace, but that did not work out,” Trump says. “Gaza is a dangerous death trap.”