I'll take you can't buy Gaza for $200, Alex.

In 1917, in order to win Jewish support for Britain's First World War effort, the British Balfour Declaration promised the establishment of a Jewish national home in Ottoman-controlled Palestine. However, the British had also promised Arab nationalists that a united Arab country, covering most of the Arab Middle East, would result if the Ottoman Turks were defeated. When the fighting ended in 1918, neither promise was delivered. In 1920, Britain assumed responsibility for Palestine under a League of Nations Mandate. During the next two decades, over 100,000 Jews entered the country.  Militant Muslim Arab groups opposed this mass Jewish immigration and violence reached a height with the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. During the Second World War (1939-45), the British restricted the entry into Palestine of European Jews escaping Nazi persecution. They had imposed a limit on Jewish immigration in the summer of 1939, anxious to end the disturbances in Palestine and to secure the support of the Egyptians and oil-rich Saudis ahead of the looming conflict in Europe. After the Second World War, 250,000 Jewish refugees were stranded in displaced persons camps in Europe. Despite the pressure of world opinion - in particular the repeated requests of US President Harry Truman - the British refused to lift the ban on immigration and admit 100,000 Jews to Palestine. (https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/conflict-Palestine) In September 1946, the British called a conference of Jewish and Arab leaders in London. When this ended in deadlock in February 1947, the Government announced it had decided to refer the problem to the United Nations. In November 1947, the United Nations recommended the partition of Palestine and the establishment of separate Arab and Jewish states. On 15 May 1948, Britain gave up her mandate. The British Army departed from Palestine leaving the Jews and the Arabs to fight it out in the war that followed. On May 14, 1948, with the termination of the British Mandate and the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel. The following morning, the surrounding Arab armies invaded Palestine, beginning the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. By the end of the war, the State of Israel had captured about 78% of former territory of the mandate, the Kingdom of Jordan had captured and later annexed the area that became the West Bank, and Egypt had captured the Gaza Strip. The war formally ended with the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which established the Green Line demarcating these territories. The 1949 Armistice Agreements were signed between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. As a consequence of the fighting in Palestine/Israel between 1947 and 1949, over 700,000 Palestinians became refugees. Many Palestinians
have claimed that most were expelled in accordance with a Zionist plan to rid the country of its non-Jewish inhabitants. The official Israeli position holds that the refugees fled on orders from Arab political and military leaders. 

This tenuous arrangement was never strong.  Arabs and Jews engaged in numerous conflicts over the years with tension between the two escalating and resulting in the Six Day War in 1967, between Israel and the Arab countries of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. Palestinian guerrilla attacks on Israel from bases in Syria led to increased hostility between the two countries.  Syria feared that an invasion by Israel was forthcoming and appealed to Egypt for support. Egypt answered by ordering the withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces from the Sinai Peninsula and by moving troops into the area. Amid increasingly belligerent language from both sides, Egypt signed a mutual defense treaty with Jordan. Israel, surrounded and fearing an Arab attack was imminent, launched what it felt was a preemptive strike against the three Arab states on June 5, 1967. Israeli forces captured the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank of the Jordan River, Old City of Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The status of these occupied territories subsequently became a major point of contention between the two sides. In October 2023 Hamas led an attack against Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking more than 240 others hostage. Israel declared war the next day and carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip followed by a ground invasion. The war leveled much of the Gaza Strip and resulted in a humanitarian crisis there. A negotiated ceasefire was announced in January 2025.

At the present moment the Gaza Strip is under Israeli governmental control, however, President Trump has suggested that under his plan, Gaza would be handed over to the US by Israel and its residents encouraged to move elsewhere with no right of return. The task of rebuilding Gaza will be monumental. Unexploded munitions and mountains of debris have to be removed. Water and power lines have to be repaired. Schools, hospitals and shops need to be rebuilt. No US president ever thought that solving the Israel-Palestinian conflict would involve taking over a chunk of Palestinian territory and evicting its population. To be clear, to do this by force would be a grave violation of international law.  Around three quarters of UN members recognise Gaza as part of a sovereign state of Palestine, though the US does not. 

It has been made clear by surrounding Arab nations that Gaza is not for sale.  Even though 150,000 residents have left others have made it clear they are staying either because they lack the financial means to do so or because their attachment to Gaza – part of the land they call Palestine – is simply too strong.  Put your pocketbook away, sir.