Netanyahu says ‘worth listening carefully’ to Trump’s proposal for Gaza

Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement from his hotel in Washington DC, February 6, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement from his hotel in Washington DC, February 6, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)

In a video statement from his Washington hotel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that it is “worth listening carefully” to US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Trump, says the prime minister, “raised his idea about Gaza, about the day after Hamas, and I think it is worth listening carefully to this idea, which is the first original idea that has been raised in years.”

He says Republican and Democrat Congressional leaders all agreed on two things – Iran must not have nuclear weapons, and “Hamas must be eliminated. It cannot be there in Gaza.”

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