President Donald Trump’s top aides staunchly defend his push to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza and have the US take over the enclave but they back away from elements of his proposal.
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00:00President Donald Trump's top aides staunchly defend his push to transfer Palestinians out
00:05of Gaza and have the U.S. take over the enclave, but they back away from elements of his proposal.
00:10At a White House briefing Wednesday, February 5, Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt hails
00:15Trump's Gaza proposal as historic, quote, outside-of-the-box thinking.
00:20But she notes the president had not committed to putting boots on the ground in the territory.
00:24She also declines to rule out the use of U.S. troops there.
00:27At the same time, Leavitt walks back Trump's earlier assertion that Gazans need to be permanently
00:32resettled in neighboring countries.
00:34She instead says they should be temporarily relocated for the rebuilding process.
00:38U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also says the idea was for Gazans to leave the territory
00:44for an interim period of reconstruction and debris clearing.
00:48Trump earlier announced he envisioned transforming Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East and
00:52have Gazans leave Palestine.