Calling the Gaza Strip “a demolition site right now,” President Donald Trump suggested after his meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday that displaced Palestinians be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory.

“If you look at Gaza, there’s hardly a building standing and the ones that are, are going to collapse,” Trump said during a press briefing alongside Netanyahu, the first foreign leader to visit Washington, D.C., since Trump took office Jan. 20. A portion of the briefing aired on Newsmax.

“You can’t live in Gaza right now, Trump said, according to a C-SPAN video of the briefing. “We need another location, a location that’s going to make people happy. It’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes, and then they can be happy enough, not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.

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