Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised a proposal from President Donald Trump for US control of Gaza and the displacement of its population as "revolutionary".
Mr Netanyahu made the comments to his cabinet following his return to Israel from Washington.
He said that the two allies agreed on "ensuring Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel... President Trump came with a completely different, much better vision for Israel -- a revolutionary, creative approach".
He added that the US president is "very determined to implement it" and the visit to Washington had secured "tremendous achievements".
In a Fox News interview aired yesterday, Mr Netanyahu defended Mr Trump's proposal, which has sparked concern and condemnation across the Middle East and the world.
"I think that President Trump's proposal is the first fresh idea in years, and it has the potential to change everything in Gaza," Mr Netanyahu said, adding that it represents a "correct approach" to the future of the Palestinian territory.
"All Trump is saying, 'I want to open the gate and give them an option to relocate temporarily while we rebuild the place physically'," Mr Netanyahu said.
Mr Trump "never said he wants American troops to do the job. Guess what? We'll do the job," Mr Netanyahu declared.
Mr Netanyahu said Mr Trump's plan was a departure from the "same old, same old, same old - we leave, Gaza becomes again occupied by these terrorists who use it as a base to attack Israel... It doesn't go anywhere."
"I think we should pursue it," he added, cautioning that "the real issue" was finding a country that would agree to take in Palestinians displaced from Gaza.
The Israeli leader also said that relocated Palestinians would have to "disavow terrorism" to be allowed to return to Gaza.
For Palestinians, any attempts to force them out of Gaza would evoke dark memories of what the Arab world calls the "Nakba", or catastrophe - the mass displacement of Palestinians during Israel's creation in 1948.
However, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that there is no point to discuss what Mr Trump's plan to take over Gaza.
"From our perspective, there is nothing worth talking about the proposals brought up by the new US administration regarding Gaza under the pressure of the Zionist lobby," Mr Erdogan said in a news conference.
"This plan is completely futile...No one has the power to remove the people of Gaza from their homeland. The people of Gaza will continue to stay in Gaza, live in Gaza and protect Gaza."
It comes as Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty travelled to Washington for talks with senior officials from the new Trump administration and members of Congress, his ministry said.
The ministry's statement said the visit aimed "to boost bilateral relations and strategic partnership between Egypt and the US", and would include "consultations on regional developments".
Egypt also said it will host an emergency Arab summit on 27 February to discuss what it described as "serious" developments for Palestinians, according to a statement from the Egyptian foreign ministry.
Trump to meet with leaders of Saudi Arabia and Egypt - Israeli president
Meanwhile, Israeli President Isaac Herzog claimed that US President Donald Trump was set to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and possibly Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, although he gave no dates for the talks.
The comments, delivered in an interview with Fox News, came in response to a question about Mr Trump's recently unveiled proposal to take over and redevelop Gaza after Israel's bombing campaign.
Mr Herzog did not say when or where the meetings would take place, nor did he discuss their potential content.
He also said that Mr Trump is due to meet with Jordan's King Abdullah in the coming days, which Jordan's state news agency has already reported.
"President Trump is due to meet with major, major Arab leaders, first and foremost the king of Jordan and the president of Egypt and I think also the crown prince of Saudi Arabia as well," Mr Herzog claimed.
"These are partners that must be listened to, they must be discussed with. We have to honour their feels as well and see how we build a plan that is sustainable for the future," Mr Herzog said.
Saudi Arabia has flatly rejected Mr Trump's Gaza plan, as have many world leaders.
Jordan's King Abdullah plans to tell Mr Trump during their planned 11 February meeting in Washington that the proposal is a recipe for radicalism that will spread chaos through the Middle East and jeopardise the kingdom's peace with Israel, Reuters reported earlier this week.
The White House did not immediately respond to comment. It was not immediately possible to contact officials in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Netanyahu orders negotiators to return to Qatar following exchange
Mr Netanyahu, meanwhile, ordered negotiators to return to Qatar to discuss the fragile ceasefire in the war with Hamas, after the fifth hostage-prisoner swap agreed under the truce was completed.
He repeated his vow to crush Hamas and free all remaining hostages, denouncing the militant group as "monsters" after the handover of three captives in Gaza who appeared emaciated and were forced to speak on a stage.
The hospital treating the three Israeli hostages released from Gaza said Or Levy and Eli Sharabi were in a "poor medical condition," while Ohad Ben Ami was in a "severe nutritional state".
Of the 183 inmates released by Israel in return, the Palestinian Prisoners' Club advocacy group said seven required hospitalisation and decried "brutality" and mistreatment in jail.
While 41 of those released returned to the West Bank city of Ramallah, four were released in Israel-annexed East Jerusalem, 131 were sent to Gaza and seven were deported to Egypt.
The fifth exchange since the truce took effect last month came as negotiations were set to begin on the next phase of the ceasefire, which is intended to pave the way for a permanent end to the war.
But senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said Israel's "procrastination and lack of commitment in implementing the first phase...exposes this agreement to danger and thus it may stop or collapse".
He also described the condition of the hostages as "acceptable under the difficult circumstances that the Gaza Strip was living".
The three Israeli hostages, who were all seized by militants during Hamas's 7 October 2023 attack that sparked the war, "crossed the border into Israeli territory" yesterday, the Israeli military said.
With their return, 73 out of 251 hostages taken during the attack now remain in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military claims are dead.
Gaza militants have so far freed 21 hostages, including 16 Israelis in exchange for hundreds of mostly Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli jails.
The ceasefire, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, aims to secure the release of 17 more hostages during the remainder of the 42-day first phase.
Hamas's October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,210 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel's retaliation has killed at least 48,181 people in Gaza, the majority civilians, according to the territory's health ministry. The United Nations considers the figures reliable.
