WASHINGTON — President Trump said Tuesday that “all” Gaza Strip residents should leave — and that he hopes “they wouldn’t want to go back” to the war-shattered territory.

Trump made the comment during an Oval Office meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who did not offer his own opinion on the plan.

“All of them — we’re talking about probably 1.7 million, maybe 1.8 million, but I think all of them,” Trump said.

“I think they’ll be resettled in areas where they can live a beautiful life and not be worried about dying every day.”

Earlier in the day, Trump said that Gazans would leave the Hamas-run enclave “if they had alternatives” — after aides predicted that the Palestinian territory will remain a wasteland for the next 10 to 15 years.

“They have no alternative right now. I mean, they’re there because they have no alternative. What do they have? It is a big pile of rubble,” Trump said at the White House shortly before welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“I would like to see Jordan, I’d like to see Egypt take some,” Trump said, floating the idea of Saudi Arabia putting up the funding for resettlement.

“Look, the Gaza thing has not worked. It’s never worked. And I feel very differently about Gaza than a lot of people. I think they should get a good, fresh, beautiful piece of land, and we get some people to put up the money to build it and make it nice and make it habitable and enjoyable.”

“I think they’d love to leave Gaza if they had an option,” the president added. “Right now they don’t have an option … The whole place is demolished. It’s unsafe, it’s unsanitary. It’s not a place where people want to live.”

The leaders of Jordan and Egypt have flatly rejected the idea when it has been floated by the White House in the past – citing concern about long-term demographic changes in the Holy Land, where Palestinians who leave Israel-governed areas historically have been unable to return to their homes.

“Well, they may have said that, but a lot of people said things to me. They said they wouldn’t take anybody back in Venezuela, and right now they’re flying them right back into Venezuela,” Trump retorted, referring to migrant criminals who illegally entered the US.

Hours earlier, Trump’s aides made the case that it’s best for residents to relocate in the meantime.

Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said it was “preposterous” for Gazans to expect to be living in their former homes within five years.

An administration official told reporters on a press call that Trump “sees it as impractical for it to be rebuilt within three to five years [and] believes it will take at least 10 to 15 and thinks it’s inhumane to force people to live in an uninhabitable lot of land with unexploded ordinance and rubble.

“And so he’s looking for solutions for helping the people of Gaza have normal lives while the Gaza Strip is ultimately being rebuilt, and he’s trying to look at this in a realistic way,” the official said.

“You’ll need things like a geotechnical survey. There’s no utilities, there’s disease, there’s standing water. You couldn’t get an ambulance through there if you wanted to right now, so that it really is quite uninhabitable.”

A second official added Trump’s plan for temporarily relocating Gazans would “provide dignity for the Palestinian people” and that “what we’ve asked for is to work together with our Arab partners and friends in the region and with Israel, to all come together for creative solutions to this challenge.”

Trump won the Nov. 5 presidential election after courting Jewish and pro-Israel voters as well as Arabs and Muslims fed up with President Joe Biden’s inability to end the Gaza conflict, which started with Hamas terrorists killing about 1,200 people in southern Israel during the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks.

The densely populated Gaza Strip has more than 2 million residents — compared to nearly 3 million in the West Bank — and would be an important part of a hypothetical future Palestinian state. Its Hamas-governed residents could not easily emigrate before the war because of tight border controls by Egypt and Israel.

Neighboring war-torn countries have had large-scale emigration themselves, with Syria’s recently ended civil war sending more than 6 million of the country’s roughly 23 million people into exile, following similar mass relocations in Lebanon and Iraq.

It’s unclear if Gazans would be guaranteed a right to return to the Strip under Trump’s plan, and it’s possible many would choose not to do so, potentially tipping the population balance between Jews and Arabs in historically Israeli-controlled areas.

“President Trump’s ideas for the Gaza Strip — to ‘clean out the whole thing’ — is supported by the far right in Israel and by several members of the Likud party,” Alex Mintz, a national security expert and senior professor at Israel’s Reichman University, told The Post.

“Cabinet Ministers [Bezalel] Smotrich and [Iramar] Ben-Gvir’s agenda and dream is to transfer Palestinians from the area to other countries. Smotrich even revealed that he is working on an ‘operational plan’ in support of this idea.”

Ben-Gvir nearly torpedoed Israel’s ongoing cease-fire deal with Hamas, saying it failed to eliminate the terror group and ensure an opportunity for Israel to reconstitute and run Gaza, from which Israeli forces and settlers previously withdrew in 2005 under then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. 

Trump said Monday that Israel’s small geographical size was “not good” — after musing on the campaign trail about how the Jewish state might need to be enlarged and blessing the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights from Syria during his first term.

“I actually said is there any way of getting more? It’s so tiny,” he said last year.

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