Donald Trump has proposed relocating as many as 1.5 million Gazans to neighbouring Jordan and Egypt in a bid to “clean out” the war-torn strip.

It comes as the US president also lifted a pause imposed by the Biden administration on 2,000-pound bombs for Israel.

Now in his second term in office, Mr Trump said on his social media app Truth Social: “A lot of things that were ordered and paid for by Israel, but have not been sent by Biden, are on their way!”

As the world looks to a post-war Gaza, the White House said that Mr Trump told Jordan’s King Abdullah: “I’d love you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess, it’s a real mess. I’d like him to take people.”

Around one in five people in Jordan is Palestinian, believed to be a population of over 2.2 million already. Mr Trump was not clear if the proposal was designed to be a temporary or long-term solution. 

“Could be either,” he said, a move hailed by Israel’s right-wing government.