President Trump dances while his campaign song “God inje The USA” plays on stage at the Al Udeid air base in Qatar on May 15, 2025.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Al -Budeid air base, Qatar – President Trump said Thursday that the Gaza Strip should be transformed into a “freedom of freedom”, doubling on his Proposal to move the Palestinians Of the territory just as Israel provides for a major offensive and intensifies deadly air strikes, killing more than 150 people during the last day, including dozens of children.
Trump is on the last stage of a trip to the Middle East – a visit that did not include a stop in Israel. He has Mainly pleated the question of war in Gaza In his public remarks during the trip, but made comments to journalists after a round table with business leaders in Qatar.
“Gaza has been a territory of death and destruction for many years,” said Trump. “I have concepts for Gaza which, I think, are very good-make it an area of freedom. Let the United States get involved and make it a freedom of freedom.”
Israel’s far -right government has adopted Trump’s proposals on Gaza To permanently move the Palestinians outside the territory and transform it into real estate development by the sea. Trump’s latest comments on Gaza were made when he was still in Qatar. All the Arab states have rejected the plan and Hamas called it ethnic cleaning.
Trump’s remarks on Gaza occurred on the same day, the number of Palestinians killed during Israeli attacks in the war exceeded 53,000 people – a third of them, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Hundreds of Palestinians were killed this week Intensification of Israeli air strikesAccording to hospitals and health officials contacted by NPR.
Trump has described aerial images of the widespread destruction of Israeli air strikes on Gaza.
“There is practically no standing building. It’s not like trying to save something,” he said.
A man holds the body of a child in a morgue at Beit Lahia hospital, Gaza while he stands next to the bodies of other members of the family killed on Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza on May 14, 2025.
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The ceasefire ceasefire of stall even if Trump in Qatar, where discussions occur
Only one day before Trump arrived in the Middle East, Hamas has released the United States hostage Edan AlexanderAn Israeli soldier taken captive by Palestinian activists during the attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel. Liberation has raised the hope that the United States could advance a ceasefire.
But the talks seem to be stuck without progress made in recent days, despite the presence of Israeli negotiators in Qatar this week and a visit to the Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff, in Israel on Tuesday.
Hamas agreed to release Alexander after rare journeys with the Trump administration in Qatar before the tour of the Gulf President. These talks bypassed the Israeli Prime Minister, who is under increasing pressure at home to conclude an agreement that releases hostages. Hamas wants to guarantee us that an agreement that publishes remaining Israeli hostages would be in exchange for an end of war and Israel removing its Gaza troops.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted only on a temporary truce to release certain hostages. He promised to return to war after any break in the fight in order to eliminate Hamas and disarm the group.
During his stay in the Gulf, Trump heard the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Qatar on the need to end the war in Gaza. The Saudi Crown Prince made these comments at a summit of the Arab leaders of the Gulf with Trump, and the Emir in power of Qatar was heard to raise the problem with Trump when he arrived in Doha on Wednesday.
Israel, however, provides an offensive to take control of more territory in Gaza and called tens of thousands of reservist soldiers in preparation. Israel also plans to deploy a plan supported by the United States to distribute food rations to the Palestinians which would be forcibly moved to small areas from the south of Gaza.
Israel says that its objective is to ensure that Hamas does not access or does not benefit from help. United Nations organizations and other Gaza aid groups refuse to participate In the new program, saying that he would put the Palestinians more at risk and would move the population more.
Israel has imposed more than two months of blockade on the territory, with the exception of the entry of all help, including food, fuel and medication. The blockade pushed half a million people in Gaza to famine, according to the last Examination by independent experts on famine. The blockade of Israel has aroused many criticisms from the countries of the world, as well as aid organizations and rights groups.
Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani talks to President Donald Trump at Al-Endeid air base on May 15, 2025.
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Trump focuses on major investment offers in the Gulf
Trump’s visit to the Gulf has focused on Offers of several billion dollars This strengthens investments in American companies, such as an order signed by Qatar on Wednesday for up to 210 Boeing Airplanes.
Major agreements have also been signed when it was stopped two days in Saudi Arabia this week in technology and AI, but most of the investments and sales in the Gulf states are in the defense and the American weapons.
Trump made rally style comments Thousands of American troops stationed in the Al-Wudeid air base in Qatar on Thursday, saying that he had won the 2020 elections and describing the Biden administration as “bad”.
“You are, without a doubt, the greatest combat force in world history,” he said, adapting his campaign slogan to tell the troops that they “render America again” again “and describing the efforts of his administration to end the diversity initiatives in the army.
“We are not careful if you are politically correct,” he said.
The sprawling air base was used by the United States for air strikes against the Islamic State group and other operations in the Middle East. The United States also has the 5th fleet of the navy positioned off the coast of Bahrain, and the troops present in the bases of the water, where the president should complete his golf tour on Friday.
Aya Batrawy reported in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
