Trump Wants To “Clean Out” Palestinians In Gaza
+ Israel attacks escalate in the West Bank, Sudan genocide continues, Palestinians return home to rubble, & more.

President Donald Trump said he wants to “just clean out” the Gaza Strip and have Jordan and Egypt take in more Palestinian refugees either temporarily or for the long term, a move that has previously been rejected by Arab countries since the genocide began.
The president said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan in a phone call Saturday that he wants the monarch’s country to receive Palestinians. He said he expected to make a similar request of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi in a coming phone call.
“You’re talking about a million and half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,” the president told reporters during a 20-minute question-and-answer session on Air Force One Saturday. “You know over the centuries it is had many, many conflicts. And I don’t know, something has to happen.”
The comments came the same day Trump confirmed the release of a hold on 2,000-pound bombs that the Biden administration had withheld from Israel over concerns about the civilian death toll in Gaza. His administration also lifted sanctions on Israeli settler organizations and individuals in the West Bank imposed by the Biden administration.
“It is literally a demolition site, almost everything is demolished and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump said Saturday.
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🇮🇱 ISRAEL STOPS RETURN OF PALESTINIANS
Israel accused Hamas of violating its ceasefire agreement by changing the order of the captives it released, leading it to stop thousands of Palestinians from returning to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday.
It claimed that another hostage, civilian Arbel Yehoud, was supposed to have been released ahead of the four soldiers freed on Saturday.
🏠 PALESTINIANS RETURN HOME TO RUBBLE
While Palestinians can now freely go back to the north with the start of phase one of the ceasefire deal, there isn’t anything left to go back to, as nearly everything has been destroyed. Approximately 60% of buildings in Gaza—at least 151,265 structures and 57% of agricultural land— has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
"My home was gone on the seventh day of the war... but when I saw all of Gaza's homes gone, I surrendered to God," Muhammad Dahr, a resident in northern Gaza told Middle East Eye.
"Nothing remains... All of Gaza is in ruins, even the houses of worship, no stone, no trees, nothing," he said, adding that he did not even recognize his home or neighborhood.
Related:
Gaza Ceasefire Deal Has Been Signed, Here's What You Need to Know
🇵🇸 ISRAEL KILLS TWO-YEAR OLD IN THE WEST BANK
Israeli forces k*lls 2-year-old Palestinian girl, Laila al-Khatib in occupied West Bank.
She succumbed to her wounds after being shot during an Israeli military raid in Jenin.
Related:
What Palestinians in Gaza Would Do First If a Ceasefire is Called
🇸🇩 Sudan's Army Accused of Ethnic Killings in Gezira State
The Sudanese militia have been accused of killings, sexual violence, looting and arson. The United States has formally declared that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have committed genocide during the country’s ongoing civil war, marking the second time in less than 30 years that genocide has been perpetrated in Sudan. The U.S. placed sanctions on the army chief, whether or not Trump will uphold them is unclear.
On Thursday South Sudan ordered a temporary ban on social media over violence in neighboring Sudan. Over a million people have fled from Sudan to South Sudan due to the violence. Hunger and famine in Sudan is only increasing daily.
🇺🇸 TRUMP SIGNS HUNDREDS OF PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
In his first week in office, U.S. President Donald Trump signed hundreds of presidential actions. He signed 46 presidential actions, including 26 executive orders on his first day alone—to compare in his previous term, he signed only one executive order on his first day.
Related:
Donald Trump Kicks Off Day One with 26 Executive Orders Impacting Muslims
🚚 HUMANITARIAN AID FINALLY REACHES GAZA
More than 2,400 aid trucks enter Gaza under the truce, the United Nations confirmed. The trucks have are arriving with no looting issues reported. The first batch of 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a senior U.N. official told Reuters.
🕌 TRUMP ADMIN GIVES ICE GO TO MAKE ARRESTS IN MOSQUES
Immigration authorities can now enter schools, healthcare facilities and places of worship to conduct arrests, according to a new policy from the Department of Homeland Security.
Administration officials said ICE can now arrest people in 'sensitive areas' including places previously considered sanctuaries
"Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America's schools and churches to avoid arrest," a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. "The Trump administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense."
Since October 7, 2023, more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed and 111,000 injured, with over 18,000 identified as children, according to the enclave’s health ministry— several of the deaths include journalists, media and healthcare workers. Per the latest death toll stats, one out of every 50 people has been killed in Gaza— a majority not over the age of 18.
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Profiting from Pain: The Outrage of an American Occupation in Gaza
The very notion of an American occupation in Gaza is not just outrageous—it’s an affront to humanity. The horrifying proposal to displace over 2 million Palestinians from the land where their families have lived for thousands of years is a crime against history, against dignity, and against every principle we claim to uphold.
Disguising this heinous plan as “development” or “stability” is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt at profiteering from suffering. The idea of turning Gaza into a so-called “Middle Eastern Riviera” is not visionary—it’s vicious. It’s a grotesque display of power prioritizing profit over people, luxury over lives, and greed over grief.
This isn’t redevelopment. It’s erasure. The forced removal of millions under the guise of progress echoes the darkest chapters of history, where those in power justified atrocities as necessary for “the greater good.”
The U.S. president’s decree that such actions are “good for them” is a chilling reminder of how easily the powerful can distort reality. There is no good in forced displacement. There is no progress in paving over the pain of the oppressed.
We must reject this narrative. We must stand against the exploitation of trauma, the commodification of grief, and the weaponization of power. This is not peace. This is not progress. This is theft—of land, of history, of humanity.
And the world is watching.
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