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Trump's Mideast Envoy Explains Trump's Gaza Proposal


(Fox News) Ashley Carnahan - U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff said Tuesday in an interview that Gaza will be "uninhabitable" for at least 10 to 15 years. "Peace in the region means a better life for the Palestinians. A better life is not necessarily tied to the physical space that you're in today. A better life is about better opportunity, better financial conditions, better aspirations for you and your family. That doesn't occur because you get to pitch a tent in the Gaza Strip and you're surrounded by 30,000 munitions that could go off at any moment. It's a dangerous place to live today." Witkoff said, "I think [Trump] is telling the Middle East that the last 50 years of doing things was not a correct way of doing things, and that he's going to change it, because all of those iterations have not worked."
2025-02-06 00:00:00
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