(6 Feb 2025)
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Guatemala City, Guatemala – 5 February 2025
1. Various of U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Guatemala President, Bernardo Arévalo, arriving for press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State:
"And the only thing (US) President (Donald) Trump has done – very generously, in my view – is offer the United States willingness to step in, clear the debris, clean the place (Gaza) up from all the destruction that’s on the ground, clean it up of all these unexploded munitions. And in the meantime, the people living there will not be able… the people who call that home will not be able to live there while you have crews coming and removing debris, while you have munitions being removed, etc. That’s the offer that he’s made."
3. Mid of cameras
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bernardo Arévalo, President of Guatemala:
"In this framework we have agreed to increase by 40% the number of flights of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities for their upcoming repatriation."
5. Close of camera
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State:
"His willingness to accept not just nationals but those from other nationalities as they seek to ultimately return to their own homelands is also important. And we’ve pledged our support with those efforts, as we’ve done with other countries, like Panama."
7. Rubio and Arévalo shaking hands and hugging after press conference
8. Exterior of Guatemala’s National Palace
9. Various of security personnel outside palace
10. People standing on tarmac near plane
11. Various of military personnel on tarmac
12. Rubio boarding plane bound for the Dominican Republic
STORYLINE:
President Donald Trump’s top diplomat on Wednesday walked back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.
Trump on Tuesday had called for “permanently” resettling Palestinians from war-torn Gaza and left open the door to deploying American troops there as part of a massive rebuilding operation.
But Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said he only sought to move the roughly 1.8 million Gazans temporarily to allow for reconstruction.
Even that proposal has drawn criticism from Palestinians, who are worried they may never be allowed back in if they flee, and from the Arab nations that Trump has called on to take them in.
Rubio, on his first foreign trip as secretary of state, described Trump’s proposal as a “very generous” offer to help with debris removal and reconstruction of the enclave following 15 months of fighting between Israel and Hamas.
“In the meantime… the people who call that home will not be able to live there while you have crews coming and removing debris, while you have munitions being removed,” Rubio said in a news conference in Guatemala City.
Leavitt said in a briefing with reporters in Washington that Gaza is “a demolition site” and referenced footage of the devastation.
Their comments contradicted Trump, who said Tuesday night, “If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.”
He added that he envisioned “long-term” U.S. ownership of a redevelopment of the territory, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea.
El Salvador announced a similar but broader agreement Monday.
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