Speaking at the Conference of Presidents in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he believes the Gaza plan put forward by US President Donald Trump is the most realistic plan for the region.
“Trump has presented a bold new vision, the only plan I think can work,” Netanyahu tells the North American Jewish leaders, calling it “right on the dot.”
Gazans who want to leave the Strip and live elsewhere should be allowed to do so, he adds.
An Israeli official says that Netanyahu spoke at length today with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Trump’s plan for Gaza.
The official calls the plan a vision of “voluntary emigration and creating a different Gaza.”
Trump has said that the two million residents of Gaza should permanently be resettled elsewhere and the Strip rebuilt as a tourist mecca — something resoundingly rejected by the US’s Arab allies.
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