US President Donald Trump said in his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States will take control of the Gaza Strip and become its owner, adding that "the same people" should not be responsible for rebuilding and settling in the Strip.

Trump renewed his support for the plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip "permanently" to Egypt, Jordan and other countries.

He added that he and his team are discussing the possibility of resettlement with Jordan, Egypt and other countries in the region. He said he would like to see an agreement "to resettle people permanently in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot or killed."

Trump's remarks came during a press conference he held with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, after he finished the bilateral meeting between them at the White House.

"I don't think people should go back. You can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that makes people happy," Trump said in remarks that were incoherent and seemingly scattered.

Trump said that the people of Gaza have historically been unlucky, suffering from destruction, killing and war, and that it is time to leave this damned place forever.

"When you look at the past decades, all you see in Gaza is death. This has been happening for years," he added.

He continued, promoting his plan: “What if we could find a beautiful area to resettle people permanently, in good homes, where they can be happy, and not be shot or killed like they are in Gaza.”

Trump noted that Egypt and Jordan had informed Washington that they were not prepared to accept residents from Gaza, but claimed that other countries had expressed their willingness to accept them. Later, in his joint press conference with Netanyahu, Trump said that the areas that would receive Gaza residents could reach 12.

In this context, he said: "Many leaders of countries have contacted us and expressed their desire to shelter people from Gaza."

Trump said he envisions a redevelopment of the Gaza Strip, home to people of all nations, including Palestinians. He said the current situation, with both Israel and the Palestinians seeking to live in the area, was unsustainable — as evidenced by the fighting over the past year. Asked if that meant he did not support a two-state solution, Trump said: “It doesn’t mean two states or one state or any other state. It means we want to give people a chance to live because Gaza has been hell.”

Earlier, Trump said on Tuesday that the Palestinians had no alternative but to leave the Gaza Strip.

He added that he would like Egypt and Jordan to receive Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

Trump claimed that the Palestinians would "very much" leave the besieged Gaza Strip to live elsewhere if given the chance, adding, "I think they would be very happy" to do so.

"I don't know how they want to survive. It's a ruined site," he said, more than 15 months after US ally Israel launched a devastating war in the territory.

The US President had previously spoken of a plan to “clean up” Gaza, calling for the transfer of Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.

The two countries categorically rejected this, and their leaders confirmed on Tuesday "adopting the unified Arab position calling for achieving permanent peace in the Middle East region," according to the Egyptian presidency.

"Well, they may have said that, but a lot of people have said things to me," Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.

"If we can find the right piece of land, or several pieces of land, and build some nice housing on it, there is definitely a lot of money in the area, and I think that would be much better than going back to Gaza, which has seen nothing but decades of death," he said.

When asked by a reporter about possible locations for such housing, Trump repeated that it could be in Jordan, Egypt or "other places. There could be more than two."

"People could have lived in a very nice, safe, nice place. But Gaza has been a disaster for decades," he continued.

Asked further whether the United States would pay for such a move, he said there were "a lot of people in the region who would do it, and they have a lot of money," and cited Saudi Arabia as an example.

"They have no alternative now," he added when asked by a reporter whether such a move would lead to the forced displacement of Palestinians.

"They're there because they don't have any alternative. What do they have? It's a huge pile of rubble now... I think they'll be very happy to do that," Trump added.

"I think they would very much like to leave Gaza," Trump told reporters in his office before meeting Netanyahu, asking, "What is Gaza?"

He said he "does not necessarily support" Israelis settling in the Strip instead of Palestinians.

"I'm all for cleaning it up and turning it into something. But that's failed over many decades. And someone will be sitting here 10 or 20 years from now and they'll be facing the same thing," he added.

The Palestinians reject Trump's idea of displacing them from the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, stressing that they will remain on their land even if the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which was destroyed by the war, is delayed.

As soon as the ceasefire agreement went into effect in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of displaced people from the southern and central areas of the Strip began returning to their destroyed areas.

According to government media in the Strip, those returning to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip need 135,000 tents and caravans, which Israel had not allowed to enter until Monday.

Hamas says that the humanitarian protocol in the ceasefire agreement stipulates the entry of 200,000 tents and 60,000 caravans into the Strip during the first phase, which lasts for six weeks.

Upon his return to the White House, Trump proposed "cleaning up" Gaza and moving the Palestinians to "safer" places such as Egypt or Jordan, sparking international protests.

Trump announced on Monday that there were "no guarantees" that the ceasefire in effect in the Gaza Strip would remain in place.

In a related case, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the UN Human Rights Council and UNRWA.

This decision comes within a series of previous withdrawals taken by Trump since taking office on January 20, as he previously ordered the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Agreement.