Donald Trump's doubling down on his plan for a US takeover of the Gaza strip. 

Posting on social media, the US President says Gaza will be turned over to the US by Israel when fighting has "concluded". 

He says by then Palestinians will have been already resettled in "far safer and more beautiful communities" elsewhere in the Middle East. 

However, it turns out that Trump didn’t inform some of his top cabinet picks about the idea beforehand, which has lead to some backpedalling. 

The new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio says that the only thing Trump has done is offer the United States’ willingness to step in and clean up the strip. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold told Mike Hosking that in direct contrast to Rubio’s words, Trump said that he does see a “long term ownership position” for the US.  

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