Srilanka, Feb. 5 -- AL Jazeera - United States President Donald Trump has said the US will "take over" and "own" Gaza after resettling Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary redevelopment plan that he claimed could turn the enclave into "the Riviera of the Middle East".
In a shock announcement upending decades of US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump said on Tuesday that his administration would spearhead economic development in the enclave to "supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area".
"The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it," Trump said at the White House after talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, adding that his admi...