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If we don’t help the Gazans, if we don’t make their life better, if we don’t give them a sense of hope, there’s going to be a rebellion,
the transition official said If you’re not intent on making a deal, then tell me, and I’ll get on the plane and I’ll go home.”
He essentially conveyed to the prime minister Remember, there’s a lot of people, radicals, fanatics, not just from the Hamas side, from the right wing of the Israeli side, who are absolutely incentivized to blow this whole deal up,
the transition official said You have to be right on top of it, ready to snuff out a problem if it happens,
Visiting ... You got to see it, you got to feel it.”
the official said, adding We will remain in a tent, but the difference is that the bleeding will stop, the fear will stop, and we will sleep reassured,
The first thing I will do is go and check my house,
said Mohamed Mahdi, a father of two who was displaced from Gaza City's Zaytoun neighborhood It is clear that the situation in Gaza is still extremely complex and a lot of difficulties still remain for an effective distribution,
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday What is this truce that kills us hours before it begins?”
asked Abdallah Al-Aqad, the brother of a woman killed by an airstrike in the southern city of Khan Younis The president has been a great friend of Israel, and now it’s time to be a friend back,
He told the Israeli leader ... the Wall Street Journal reported They’ve had maximum support during this war and what comes next is not so certain,
I’m actually quite sceptical of the idea that Trump put any particular pressure on Netanyahu, even though I think that’s a narrative that some folks would like to believe and perhaps that Trump would like for people to believe,
Yousef Munayyer, a political analyst and senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, told Al Jazeera That history and the longevity of the relationship indicates deep trust and loyalty which will give Witcoff a longer leash to manoeuvre on the Middle East peace file,
Zaha Hassan, a political analyst and fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told Al Jazeera We have people that know everything about the Middle East, but they can’t speak properly … he is a great negotiator,
the president-elect said of his friend For the past few days, we have been speaking as one team,
the president said in a nod to Witkoff He gives us a lot of authority,
I think they heard him loud and clear: better get done by the inaugural,
Witkoff later told reporters about the deal, praising Trump for delegating “better” than anyone else Witcoff’s proclivities aren’t yet clear”,
Given Trump’s desire in realising a Saudi-Israeli normalisation agreement and the Saudi requirement that such a deal would have to include a Palestinian state or an irreversible path to one, some hope exists that Trump, unlike Biden, will use the leverage of the office of the presidency in the service of a true ‘deal of the century’,
We’ve sent a signal to the incoming team that we’re prepared to work with them on this issue,
national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that day
