Trump says ‘Gaza thing has never worked’ as he welcomes Natanyahu to White House

President Donald Trump meets Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office. Picture: Evan Vucci/AP

US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that “the Gaza thing has never worked” as he and top advisers made the case that a three-to-five-year timeline for reconstruction of the war-torn territory, as laid out in a temporary truce agreement, is not viable.

Mr Trump renewed his call to Arab nations to relocate displaced Palestinians as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House, saying “you can’t live in Gaza right now, you need another location”.