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There can be no meaningful negotiations while Gaza is being starved and bombed,
Naim said, stressing that
Food, water, and medicine are fundamental rights, not subjects for negotiation,
he concludedI have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good, make it a freedom zone, let the United States get involved and make it just a freedom zone,
Trump said in Qatar
We are currently reporting more than 100 martyrs in areas of the Gaza Strip (on Thursday), from central Khan Younis to northern Gaza.”
Mahmoud Basal, a Civil Defense spokesman, said
I was sleeping and I thought the house fell on us. I went into a state of shock… I thought I was a martyr.”
A teenage boy, Ahmad Al-Safi, who had been displaced from northern Gaza, told CNN
We are destroying more and more homes, they have nowhere to return to. The only inevitable outcome will be the desire of Gazans to emigrate outside of the Gaza Strip,
Netanyahu said earlier this week ... a goal that Trump had supported soon after coming into officeWe have also told the Americans, we are ready to, again, to hand over the government immediately if we reach an end of this war,
he said
Before that, as long as we are still occupied people, we have all the right to continue defending our people and resisting the occupation with all means including under resistance,
he saidI do see a long-term ownership position and I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East and maybe the entire Middle East.”
When asked what authority would allow the U.S. to carry out this idea, and
I think it’s worth paying attention to this,
Netanyahu concludedThey’ve never solved the Gaza problem and if you look at it, I have aerial shots, I mean there’s practically no building standing, there’s no building. People are living under the rubble of buildings that collapsed, which is not acceptable, it's tremendous death. And I want to see that be a freedom zone.”
Per CNN, the U.S. President went on to addYou’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing,
Trump saidThe U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip. We’ll do a job with it. We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous bombs and other weapons,
he said
GHF emphasizes that a successful humanitarian response must eventually include the entire civilian population in Gaza,
the foundation’s executive director, Jake Wood, wrote in a letter to the Israeli government
GHF respectfully requests that the [Israeli military] identify and deconflict sufficient locations in northern Gaza capable of hosting GHF-operated secure distribution sites that can be made operational within 30 days,
he addedUnfortunately, Israel’s reaction to this was [bombing] the next day, while sending the delegation,
he said