Israeli PM Netanyahu stresses “common” Gaza strategy with US president
Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has stressed his “common strategy” with the US President Donald Trump regarding the future of Gaza Strip.
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Netanyahu made the comment in a meeting with the visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the occupied al-Quds where the American official highlighted Trump’s controversial proposal on US takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu, who recently visited Washington, expressed his appreciation for the US president’s “full support” for Israel’s next moves in Gaza.
“We discussed Trump’s bold vision for Gaza’s future and will work to ensure that vision becomes a reality,” Netanyahu told reporters after the meeting, adding that the two sides had a “common strategy” for the future of the war-torn Palestinian territory.
The Trump administration has warned of repercussions for Egypt and Jordan if they do not allow in the more than two million Palestinians in Gaza.
Washington has expressed openness to alternative proposals from Arab governments but has stressed that currently, “the only plan is Trump’s.”
“Right now, the only plan — they don’t like it — but the only plan is the Trump plan. So, if they’ve got a better plan, now’s the time to present it,” Rubio said on Thursday.
“Israel will now have to decide what they will do,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Saturday. “The United States will back the decision they make!” he added.
Trump sparked a global outcry with his proposal for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip and to move more than two million Palestinians out of the territory, citing Egypt or Jordan as possible destinations.
Legal experts say the Trump's vicious scheme to takeover Gaza would violate international law, amounting to ethnic cleansing.
Rubio arrived in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories hours after Israel’s war ministry in a statement confirmed that a shipment of “heavy” US-made bombs arrived overnight in the occupied Palestinian lands.
Amid severe shortages of essential resources such as food, water, and medical supplies due to deliberate restrictions, the Israeli war on Gaza has forcibly displaced almost all of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.
