“It’s time to give the residents of Gaza a real choice,” Benjamin Netanyahu said. (File) Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said it was time to give Palestinians “the freedom to leave” Gaza, praising US President Donald Trump’s “visionary and innovative” plan to forcibly remove the territory’s residents. “President Trump presented a visionary … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump is doubling down on his demand that Jordan permanently take in Palestinians while the U.S. takes over Gaza. Tuesday’s White House meeting came amid a possible collapse of the fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara reports.
WASHINGTON — King Abdullah II was at the White House on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his demand that Jordan permanently take in Palestinians and support the United States to take over Gaza — a plan that Trump said will “be wonderful” for the Middle East. “You’re going to see some … Read more
New Delhi: Saudi Arabia has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suggestion that the kingdom hosts the Palestinian state in its own territory. In a statement issued on Sunday (February 9), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said that Netanyahu’s statement “aims to divert attention from the continuous crimes committed … Read more
U.S. national security adviser Mike Waltz responded Sunday to critics of the Gaza takeover plan that U.S. President Donald Trump suggested last week. On the ground in the Middle East, the Israel-Hamas truce resulted in another successful hostage for prisoners exchange. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias has the story.
Washington DC: Over a week ago, when US President Donald Trump called Gaza a demolition site following 16 months of assault and proposed to “clean out that whole thing”, it wasn’t clear how serious he was about the plan. But during his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it became profoundly clear … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a delay to Thursday’s release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for three Israeli hostages freed earlier in the latest exchange of the Gaza ceasefire, his office said. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, along with Defence Minister Israel Katz, has instructed the delay of … Read more
Ramallah: A Palestinian prisoners advocacy group said Israeli authorities would release 110 prisoners, including 30 minors, on Thursday as part of an exchange under a Gaza ceasefire deal agreed with Hamas. “Tomorrow, 110 Palestinian prisoners are to be released,” the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a statement, referring to the third exchange of hostages and … Read more
Ramallah: The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli drone strike in a village in the occupied West Bank killed at least seven people on Wednesday, while the military said it had struck an “armed cell”. “An Israeli strike in the village of Tamun in the northern West Bank killed seven people,” the group said in … Read more
Palestinian Territories: Masses of displaced Palestinians streamed into the north of war-ravaged Gaza on Monday after Israel and Hamas reached a deal for the release of another six hostages. Also on Monday, the Israeli government said eight of the hostages held in Gaza who were due for release in the truce’s first phase are dead. … Read more
Almost all Gazans have been displaced by the war. Gaza City: Hamas said Monday that the return of Gazans to the north of the devastated territory after being forced to flee by more than 15 months of war was a victory against “plans” for the forced displacement of the Palestinians. “The return of the displaced … Read more
Gaza City: Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and armed group Hamas vowed on Sunday to defy proposals for the forced displacement of Gazans, after US President Donald Trump floated a plan to “clean out” the war-battered territory. Meanwhile, Palestinian sources said a dispute linked to hostage-prisoner swaps under the Israel-Hamas truce deal may be nearing a … Read more