'When you make a criminal sociopath the leader of the free world, you can expect anything'

Residents of Tel Aviv react to US president Donald Trump's plan to turn Gaza into the 'Riveria of the Middle East'

In an unprecedented press conference, Donald Trump said Gaza 'should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there.' Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

A “hellhole” that has the potential to become the “Riveria of the Middle East”, so says Donald Trump on the future of Gaza. That plan includes the transfer, forcibly, if necessary, by the US military of the two million Palestinians who currently live there.

In an unprecedented press conference, the US president said Gaza "should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there".