President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a joint press conference at the White House Tuesday, as a fragile ceasefire in Gaza continued to hold.
There, Trump shocked the world by announcing that he wants the United States to "take over" the Gaza Strip, and turn the destroyed Palestinian homeland into what he called "the Riviera of the Middle East."
But to do so, Trump said, would require that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people, who have owned and inhabited the crowded seaside territory for generations, would have to leave.
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