President Trump on Thursday suggested the U.S. would look to take control of the Gaza Strip and turn it into a “freedom zone,” highlighting one of his more controversial foreign policy proposals

President Trump is visiting Qatar and the U.A.E. after inking big weapons and tech deals in Saudi Arabia. So far, his trip hasn't seemed to push forward chances for a ceasefire in Gaza.

This is not the first time the US president has proposed a takeover of the region, currently at the center of Israel's war on Hamas.

Speaking on Thursday in Qatar, Donald Trump announced that he wants the United States to "take over" the Gaza Strip and transform it into a "zone of freedom," AFP reported. While Israel tightens its siege of the Gaza Strip and continues its military assault on the Palestinian enclave,

Donald Trump proposed the U.S. should control Gaza and transform it into a “freedom zone,” citing extensive destruction and uninhabitable conditions. He previously suggested relocating Palestinians and developing Gaza into a luxury resort.

President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his desire to take over the Gaza Strip, telling a business roundtable in Qatar that the US would "make it a freedom zone" and arguing there was nothing left to save in the Palestinian territory.