President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States will “take over the Gaza Strip” and promised to rehabilitate the land destroyed after 15 months of war.

“We’ll own it and be responsible,” Trump said, pledging to “create an economic development that will supply an unlimited number of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job.”

He provided no details on how the United States would acquire the land, although Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the idea as “something that can change history.”

Trump and top national security aides had spoken earlier in the day about their belief that Gaza was uninhabitable and about a proposal to relocate nearly 2 million Palestinians to other countries.