White House dismisses report on alleged US military base on Gaza border

The White House on Wednesday dismissed a report that the US is considering building a temporary military base on the border of the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports. “This article was based on a single piece of paper, an inquiry that somebody in the Department of Navy made about an idea that may happen in the future, and this reporter deemed that as an official plan, and ran with a story that the United States is looking into it. I checked with the highest levels of the United States federal government. “This is not something the United States is interested in being engaged in … it’s not something we are currently involved in right now,” spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters. The […]