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We intend to commit to do that. I won't talk here how we intend to do it, but it's something that is in my mind and also on the president's mind."
He emphasized the government's intention to retrieve both living and deceased hostages, saying So far, we've freed about 70 percent, more than that actually, of the living hostages, and we're committed to getting everyone out."
That was a major operation.”
Trump, per the official, reportedly responded to the present This is the first good idea that I’ve heard. It’s a remarkable idea and I think it should be really pursued, examined, pursued, and done because I think it will create a different future for everyone,
Netanyahu said of Trump’s plan for the future of Gaza, in an interview on Fox News Wednesday The actual idea of allowing first Gazans who want to leave to leave, I mean, what is wrong with that
This is our land, and we are the honest and true owners,
Amir Karaja, a resident of northern Gaza told CNN on Wednesday I have instructed the IDF to prepare a plan to enable the voluntary departure of Gaza residents,
Katz said, according to a spokesperson We assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war,
We've been looking at this over the last weeks and months, and frankly he's been thinking about it since October 7
national security adviser Mike Waltz claimed on CBS Wednesday There's no utilities there whatsoever, no working water, electric, gas, nothing,
he told reporters of what he saw It should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and died there and lived a miserable existence there,
There’s no running water. There is no electricity. The president wants these individuals to live in peace,
Leavitt said from the briefing room podium So far, we've decimated most of Hamas' military power , not all. There's some left, and we'll make sure that it's not there when this war ends, and it could end very quickly,
Netanyahu told Fox News host Sean Hannity I mean, what's wrong with that? They can leave, they can then come back, they can relocate and come back. But you have to rebuild Gaza."
Not a word of this was ever mentioned by the president,
a senior Republican aide told the network The notion of lather, rinse, repeat — let’s do the same thing in Gaza we’ve done for decades isn’t going to sustain,
the White House official told CNN That does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza,
The Gaza thing has not worked
Earlier Trump told reporters at an executive order signing There was nothing he said that affects the continuity of the cease-fire and stage two of the hostage deal, ... even if you take Trump at his word and and you think of [the
When you look at the reality sitcom that took place in the White House on Tuesday, was there any mention of Saudi normalization that you recalled? There wasn't, ... Was there any allusion to an attack on Iran? There wasn't. Was there any reference to Trump understanding that the Israelis need to completely annihilate Hamas after 16 months of not doing so? There wasn't."