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For an entire year, we have been told that the 'day after' (in Gaza) must involve the PLO (the Palestine Liberation Organization), the Palestinian Authority ... President Trump has presented a completely different vision, one that is much better for the State of Israel,
Netanyahu said
He is very determined to implement it and I believe it opens up many, many possibilities for us,
Netanyahu added
President Trump came with a completely different, much better vision for Israel - a revolutionary, creative approach that we are currently discussing
the Israeli prime minister said, referring to the president's Gaza planThis visit, and the discussions we had with President Trump, carry with them tremendous achievements that could ensure Israel's security for generations,
Netanyahu saidNo soldiers by the US would be needed! Stability for the region would reign!!!
he wrote in a social media postWe are preparing to implement the ceasefire agreement according to the guidelines of the political echelon."
Asked about Sunday's withdrawal, an Israeli security official told AFP on condition of anonymity
After 492 days of uncertainty, we received our first sign of life today our Alon is alive,
his family said in a statement released by campaign group Hostages and Missing Families ForumIsraeli forces have dismantled their positions... and completely withdrawn their tanks from the Netzarim Corridor on Salaheddin Road, allowing vehicles to pass freely in both directions."
An official from the Hamas-run interior ministry saidYou are back, I thought you were dead,
the grandfather of 33-year-old Watchara Sriaoun told himHe is wounded and not receiving medical treatment,
the family said, noting the injury was to his eyeThe displacement of Palestinians is unacceptable,
he told the station in remarks quoted by Turkish state news agency Anadolu, describing Trump's proposal as historically ignorantNo one has the power to remove the people of Gaza from their eternal homeland that has been around for thousands of years,
he told a late-night news conference at Istanbul airport before flying to MalaysiaWe got the Abraham Accord because we went around the Palestinians,
he said claiming the Palestinian Authority, like Hamas seeks the destruction of Israel
When we complete the changeover in the Middle East, when we cut the Iranian axis down even further that we've already cut it, when we make sure Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, when we destroy Hamas, that will set the stage for an additional agreement with the Saudis and with others,
Netanyahu saidThey had one, it's called Gaza,
he saidThere is no way under the law that Trump could carry out the threat to dislocate Palestinians from their land,
Pillay said
Trump is woefully ignorant of international law and the law of occupation. Forcible displacement of an occupied group is an international crime, and amounts to ethnic cleansing,
Navi Pillay, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told POLITICO in an interviewI don’t see [ICC prosecutor] Karim Khan charging that crime. I was a judge on that court, I understand that it’s a bit complicated to charge a crime that has never been charged before … but if apartheid comes up, sure I will support it,
Pillay said,International law applies equally, without double standards for a state’s friends,
Pillay saidApartheid is one of the manifestations of control there,
she said of Israel’s occupation of Palestine