Gaza, Donald Trump
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This is not the first time the US president has proposed a takeover of the region, currently at the center of Israel's war on Hamas.
In Ukraine and Gaza, host to two of the most intractable wars in the world, the president is striking out in his efforts for peace.
As Israel intensified its offensive in Gaza to take "total control" of the Palestinian territory, some of its closest allies, including the United States, might be threatening to withdraw their support from Jerusalem in the face of mass starvation.
Israeli authorities prevented Ayed Ayoub from escaping Gaza's hunger and war with his family for an academic fellowship in France. He finally left last month, after Israel unexpectedly eased its tight control of the border.
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Sinar Daily on MSNTrump’s US$4 trillion Middle East tour casts shadow over Gaza genocideFor many, the contrast was as stark as it was disturbing: a genocide unfolding in real-time, while global powers signed contracts and posed for cameras.
President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his desire to take over the Gaza Strip, telling a business roundtable in Qatar that the US would "make it a freedom zone" and arguing there was nothing left to save in the Palestinian territory.
All in all, the Trump administration has been in direct talks with three of Israel’s main adversaries — Hamas, Iran, and the Houthis — to cut deals without Israel’s input, a nearly unprecedented situation according to longtime observers of relations between the two countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday there would be more information in the next day on a potential new proposal for a hostage release deal and ceasefire in Gaza.
President Donald Trump touted the Jordanian monarch’s “beautiful gesture” to accept 2,000 sick children from Gaza. But now leaders across the spectrum say Jordan is slow-walking its pledge.