President Donald Trump said Palestinians in Gaza would not have a right to return under his plan for U.S. “ownership” of the war-torn territory, contradicting other officials in his administration who have sought to argue Trump was only calling for the temporary relocation of its population.

President Donald Trump has said he is "committed to buying and owning" the Gaza Strip and relocating the two million Palestinians living there, despite global condemnation of the plan he unveiled last week.

Trump’s idea of remaking Gaza as a real estate development is not a complete outlier in the long, troubled history of U.S. intervention in the Middle East.