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Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition question to the Middle East for a fewer days opening adjacent week for his 2nd travel astatine the caput of the State Department.
Rubio volition sojourn Israel, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia aft attending the Munich Security Conference successful Germany, Fox News confirmed connected Thursday.
While an itinerary has not yet been released, Rubio's impending sojourn to the Middle East comes astatine a pivotal clip successful overseas policy, arsenic Israel and Hamas are implementing a three-stage ceasefire statement aft 16 months of warfare successful Gaza.
During a associated quality league successful the Dominican Republic with President Luis Abinader connected Thursday, Rubio said President Donald Trump has offered to beryllium portion of the solution to rebuild Gaza.
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Trump suggested connected Wednesday that the U.S. instrumentality power of the Gaza Strip successful bid to rehabilitate the territory to a livable determination arsenic astir of the country has been decimated and millions are displaced.
White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters Wednesday that nether Trump's proposal, Palestinians would be "temporarily" relocated successful bid to successfully level and rebuild.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was connected committee with the projected plan, describing it arsenic "remarkable" and "the archetypal bully thought that [he's] heard."
"President Trump is taking it to a overmuch higher level," Netanyahu said from the White House with Trump connected Wednesday. "He sees a antithetic aboriginal for that portion of onshore that has been the absorption of truthful overmuch terrorism, truthful much, truthful galore attacks against us, truthful many, truthful galore trials and truthful galore tribulations. He has a antithetic idea, and I deliberation it's worthy paying attraction to this."
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Rubio said "there are a batch of countries successful the satellite that similar to explicit interest astir Gaza and the Palestinian people, but precise fewer [were] willing, successful the past, to bash thing factual astir it."
Gaza, which is run by Hamas terrorists, is not lone uninhabitable due to the fact that of the demolition from the warfare with Israel, but due to the fact that of unexploded munitions, rockets and weapons that plague the land, Rubio said, adding that "it needs to beryllium dealt with."
"If immoderate different state is consenting to measurement guardant and bash it themselves, that would beryllium great, but nary 1 seems to beryllium rushing guardant to bash that and that has to happen," Rubio said Thursday.
The caput of authorities said helium thinks Trump projected the Gaza takeover thought successful hopes of getting a reaction from countries who "have the economical and technological capableness to lend to a post-conflict region."
As of Friday morning, nary different state has spoken retired astir a imaginable program to rehabilitate Gaza.
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