Far-fetched as Mr. Trump’s vision for Gaza may be — the Arab world has roundly rejected it and any forcible removal of a population violates international law — it abruptly shifted attention away from the future of the cease-fire deal, whose initial, six-week phase is due to end in early March.

President Trump said on Friday that there is "no rush" moving forward with his "Gaza takeover" plan, which he also described as a "real estate transaction" between America and Israel. Why it matters: Trump's comments at the top of his Oval Office meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba seem to be putting the brakes on the plan after it stunned the middle East and generated alarm among America's Arab allies.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that his plan for the United States to take ownership of the Gaza Strip should be viewed as a real estate transaction, but he offered no timetable, saying “we’re in no rush on it.

President Donald Trump's solution for Gaza is a new diaspora of resident Palestinians. This is wrong. Palestinians are already spread out across neighboring countries. The better course is to reconstruct Palestine.

Palestinians in Gaza say they are determined to rebuild their own seafront restaurants and hotels, dismissing U.S. President Donald Trump's vision of creating a "Riviera of the Middle East" emptied of its population and under U.