From the Liveblog of
Thursday, February 6, 2025
Netanyahu: Trump has transformed long-sought day-after plan into ‘day after Hamas’
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
US President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gazans and assume control of the Strip is being treated by Israel as a “day after” plan for the war-torn territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicates.
In preview footage from an interview to be aired tonight on the pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, Netanyahu says: “This is the way of the world. The president of the United States came — and they spoke to us all the time, what about the day after? — and you wanted a day after? Here he came with a new idea, totally different, the day after Hamas of course, because you can’t talk about anything else.”
Netanyahu has yet to schedule a briefing with the traveling Israeli press corps on this weeklong trip to Washington, but did sit down with the friendly network, which is the only Israeli outlet he has agreed to be interviewed by since 2021.
