Earlier this month, the president said he favored taking control of Gaza and displacing the Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave. But Egypt and Jordan flatly rejected cooperating.

In a press conference with Netanyahu, Trump proposed a U.S. takeover of Gaza, saying: "The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. ... We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site."

Behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from