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5/17/2025–|Last update: 03:37 (Mecca time)
US President Donald Trump confirmed on Friday evening that the Gaza Strip should become a “freedom zone” and that the situation in it was bad for years.
He added – in an interview with Fox News – “Gaza is a bad place and it has been so for years. I think it should become a freedom area as I call it. It does not work … Every ten years go back and there is enthusiasm and everyone is killed everywhere.”
Trump stressed that people in Gaza want to stay in the Middle East and love to live there.
“The residents of Gaza did not have to go to Sweden or Germany, as they could have had a homeland in the Middle East,” he added.
“I spoke with the leaders of the three countries that I visited (during the last Gulf tour) and said they would be part of the solution about Gaza and that they will help,” he added.
He said, “One of the three great leaders told me, please help the Palestinian people because they are starving … so I told him that we started working to help people in Gaza.”
Boredom from Netanyahu
In response to a question about his boredom from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said, “He has a difficult position and that it must be remembered that there were the seventh of October, which will not be forgotten by everyone.”
He added that if he was president, he would not have happened on October 7, and Iran would not have been able to extend Hamas with money and weapons, as he put it.
Trump had said earlier that he did not know if Netanyahu was able to sign an exchange and removal deal, and that he would discover this very soon.
He added that the Israeli prisoners in Gaza are not in a good situation, and some of them are in a better position than others.
He also stressed that he is working with the Israelis to release them, noting at the same time that the United States should help the Gaza residents in light of the hunger in the Strip.
It is noteworthy that Israel continues a massive genocide war against the residents of the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023, including killing, destruction, starvation and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders to the International Court of Justice to stop it.
In early March, the first phase of a ceasefire agreement and the exchange of prisoners between Hamas and Israel ended on January 19, 2025, by Egyptian -Qatari and American support.
While Hamas adhered to the terms of the first stage, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is required for international justice, from the start of his second phase in response to extremists in his ruling coalition, according to the Israeli media.