Trump: ‘I’m on the side of Israel,’ will have ‘very important meeting’ on Gaza with Muslim leaders

US President Donald Trump (right) holds a bilateral meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on September 23, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
US President Donald Trump (right) holds a bilateral meeting with France's President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on September 23, 2025. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)

US President Donald Trump says he is going to have a “very important meeting” on Gaza, ahead of a sitdown with leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

“I’m on the side of Israel. I’ve been on the side of Israel, really, my whole life, and we’re going to get a solution, and it’s going to be a solution that’s good for everybody,” Trump says, sitting next to French President Emmanuel Macron.

“I think Gaza is going to come along. We’re going to have a very important meeting. And my next meeting actually is going to be very important with leaders in the region. And we’re going to talk about Gaza. We’re going to see if we can do something about it. We want to stop that. We want to get our hostages back, or their hostages back,” he tells the press at the UN.

During the meeting, Trump and White House Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff are expected to unveil the US plan for the post-war management of Gaza that former UK prime minister Tony Blair has been developing in recent months and that was revealed last week in The Times of Israel.

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