Israel: Trump suggests a delivery of 2000 pound bombs

US President Donald Trump spoke of a plan to “clean up” in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, saying that he wanted to send the Palestinians from this territory to Egypt and Jordan “temporarily” or “long term ”to obtain peace.

“We are talking about around 1.5 million people, and we simply do the cleaning in there. You know, over the centuries, this site has experienced many conflicts. And I don’t know, something should happen, “Donald Trump told journalists, comparing Palestinian territory to a” demolition site “after 15 months of war with Israel.

Trump said he spoke to King Abdallah II of Jordan of this issue, and that he was going to do the same on Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi.

“It is literally a demolition site”

“I would like Egypt to welcome people. And I would like Jordan to welcome people, “Donald Trump told journalists aboard the Air Force One presidential plane. According to him, the displacement of the inhabitants of Gaza could be “temporary or in the long term”.

“It is literally a demolition site at the moment, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there,” he said. “So I would prefer to get involved with certain Arab nations and build housing in another place where they could perhaps live in peace for once,” he added.

The vast majority of the 2.4 million inhabitants of Gaza were moved, often on several occasions, by the war launched by the attack of Hamas against the south of Israel on October 7, 2023. A truce, which started the January 19, still holds and resulted in two exchanges of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli thunderstorms.

Donald Trump had exerted intense pressure on both camps for an agreement to be concluded before his inauguration on January 20.

A “large number of things” commanded by Israel now delivered

President Donald Trump also said on Saturday that a “large number of things” commanded by Israel in the United States were now delivered, in response to press information that his administration had released a delivery of 2000 pound bombs ( 907 kg).

“A large number of things that had been ordered and paid for by Israel, but which had not been sent by Biden, are now on the way!” wrote Donald Trump on his social social platform.

The administration of former Democratic president Joe Biden had suspended deliveries to Israel last year of 1,800 bombs of 2000 pounds, while the Israeli army envisaged a large -scale offensive on Rafah, in the south of the band of Gaza, where 1.4 million Palestinians moved by bombing and fighting had found refuge.

A “great human tragedy”

Joe Biden had warned that using this type of bomb in such areas would cause a “great human tragedy”.

A few days before the departure of Joe Biden of the White House, Israel and Hamas concluded a truce aimed at ending the war in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the attack of Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023.

The ceasefire still holds, and Israel and Hamas exchanged a second group of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners during the weekend. Donald Trump’s message does not specify the weapons that have been unlocked.

Bombs with great destructive power

In an article published on Axios, the Israeli journalist specializing in national security Barak Ravid wrote that Donald Trump had ordered the Ministry of Defense to lift the bombs of 2000 pounds.

This type of large bomb dropped by plane, both precise and with great destructive power, is generally used to cause extensive damage to targets such as military facilities, command centers and infrastructure.

During his first presidential mandate, Donald Trump often boasted that Israel “had never had best friends in the White House”, a feeling often repeated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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