Nigeria, March 13 -- US President Donald Trump appears to have backtracked on his plan to buy Gaza and resettle Palestinians from the strip into neighbouring countries, declaring on Wednesday that no Palestinians would be expelled from their homes.

According to him, Palestinians will not be displaced from the besieged Gaza Strip despite his plan to take over the coastal enclave.

"Nobody is expelling any Palestinians," he said to journalists at the Oval Office.

However, his statement sharply contrasts his previous proposal to take over the densely populated territory on the eastern Mediterranean coast.

He had planned to have Palestinians resettled into Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia while the US transforms Gaza Strip into the "Riviera...