US sends mixed signals on Trump's 'delusional' Gaza takeover

Nearly 48 hours after US President Donald Trump announced the US would take over Gaza to build waterfront resorts, the details are not only murky but seemingly non-existent.

Despite his own officials walking back major aspects of the proposal, including the permanent expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, Trump doubled down in a post on his TruthSocial platform on Thursday, only this time saying that “no soldiers by the US would be needed!!”

“The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” Trump wrote, suggesting that the next phase of the fragile ceasefire, due to start on 1 March, was in peril. 

“The Palestinians… would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region. They would actually have a chance to be happy, safe and free. The US, working with great development teams from all over the World, would slowly and carefully begin the construction of what would become one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth,” Trump said. 

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