Netanyahu says he and Trump 'have a common strategy' on Gaza’s future

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he and President Trump are united in their strategy on Gaza’s future and are working together on next steps.  

“I want to assure everyone who is now listening to us, President Trump and I are working in full cooperation and coordination between us,” Netanyahu said at a press conference Sunday, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“We have a common strategy, and we can't always share in details this strategy with the public, including when the gates of hell will be opened, as they surely will if all our hostages are not released, until the last one of them,” Netanyahu continued.

Netanyahu said he spoke to Rubio “a great deal” about Gaza, adding that they “discussed President Trump's bold vision for Gaza, for Gaza's future, how we can work together to ensure that that future becomes a reality.”

He also thanked Rubio for “America's unequivocal backing for Israel's policy in Gaza in moving forward” and “your unflinching support.”

Trump hosted Netanyahu at the White House earlier this month, in the first visit by a foreign leader of Trump’s second term in office.

At a press conference at the time, Trump laid out a proposal for the United States to take over war-torn Gaza and push nearly 2 million Palestinians in the region to resettle elsewhere.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job —whether we’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out,” Trump said at the press conference earlier this month.

“Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area, do a real job, do something different,” he said.