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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14408389/Netanyahu-insists-committed-Trumps-plan-develop-Gaza-IDF-pulls-southern-Lebanon-villages-ceasefire-deal.html
Netanyahu insists he is 'committed' to Trump's plan to take over and develop Gaza as IDF pulls out of southern Lebanon villages under ceasefire deal
Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that he is 'committed' to Donald Trump's plan of transforming the conflict-ridden Gaza Strip into the 'Riviera of the Middle East'.
'Just as I have committed to, on the day after the war in Gaza, there will be neither Hamas nor the Palestinian Authority. I am committed to US president Trump's plan for the creation of a different Gaza', the Israeli prime minister said in a statement yesterday.
Netanyahu's remarks come after he signalled on Sunday that he was moving ahead with Trump's proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza, calling it 'the only viable plan to enable a different future' for the region.
The prime minister discussed the plan with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who kicked off a Middle East visit by endorsing Israel's war aims in Gaza, saying Hamas 'must be eradicated.'
Rubio, in his upcoming stops in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is likely to face more pushback from Arab leaders over Trump's proposal, which consists of redeveloping Gaza under U.S. ownership.
Netanyahu has said all emigration from Gaza should be 'voluntary,' but rights groups and other critics say that the plan amounts to coercion given the territory's vast destruction.
Echoing Trump, the Israeli leader also said 'the gates of hell would be open' if Hamas doesn't release dozens of remaining hostages abducted in the militant group's attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, that sparked the 16-month war.
It comes as Israeli forces withdrew from border villages in southern Lebanon today, under a deadline spelled out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war