Trump-Netanyahu plan calls for Palestinian displacement and US "ownership"

Donald Trump proposed permanently resettling the 2.1 million Palestinians in Gaza in other countries and redeveloping Gaza under U.S. control as the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed during the 20-month Gaza war.

Private communications between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during President Biden’s term raised potential violations of the Logan Act, which bars private citizens from negotiating U.S. foreign policy.

Trump publicly labeled Netanyahu’s corruption trial a “political witch hunt” and urged its cancellation, representing intervention in Israel’s domestic affairs.

The Gaza “ownership” proposal follows a pattern of expansionist rhetoric by Trump, including past threats to annex Greenland and the Panama Canal.

International bodies and actors—including the UN Security Council and Hamas—have sharply criticized the displacement plan.

Saudi Arabia has made Palestinian statehood recognition a condition for normalizing ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords.

Trump indicated he would not rule out deploying U.S. troops for Gaza reconstruction and envisioned long-term American oversight of redevelopment.