Trump Suggests Cleaning Out Gaza, Wants Arabs To Up Refugee Intake

Prez: Gaza Strip Is Uninhabitable As Everything Is Demolished, People Are Dying; It's A Mess

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President Donald Trump said he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip, potentially moving out enough of the population to "just clean out" the war-torn area to create a virtual clean slate.

During a 20-minute question-and-answer session Saturday with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he had called earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak on Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.

"I'd like Egypt to take people, and I'd like Jordan to take people," Trump said. "You're talking about probably a million and a half people, we just clean out that whole thing," he said. Trump has built his political career around being unapologetically pro-Israel.