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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

Trump's Gaza proposal

Illustrative: A boy looks over a Palestinian tent city in the al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 6, 2025. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
July 8, 2025, 9:47 pm
Gazans reject Trump’s displacement plan despite destruction: ‘This is our land’
‘Our children who were martyred in the war are buried here,’ one resident says, after Netanyahu and US president indicate at White House meeting that the proposal is advancing
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Clockwise from top left: A Palestinian sits over the contents of a food package distributed by a US-backed foundation in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025. (AFP); Relatives of Israeli hostages and supporters protest for their release at the beach in Tel Aviv, marking 600 days of the hostages’ captivity, May 28, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Jerusalem Day state ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2025. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90); IDF troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in the northern Gaza Strip in a handout photo published on May 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 28, 2025, 4:20 pm
And what if Hamas doesn’t blink?
Netanyahu has plunged Israel into a high-risk, morally alarming game of chicken with Gaza’s ultra-cynical terrorists
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference at his office in Jerusalem on May 21, 2025. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)
May 22, 2025, 6:18 am
Netanyahu sets implementation of Trump’s Gaza relocation plan as new condition for ending war
At rare press conference, PM insists Qatari funds sent to Hamas at Israel’s request did not enable Oct. 7, seems to downplay terror group’s capabilities: ‘Attacked in flip-flops’; falsely claims Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha was not invaded
By Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg
Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee Gaza City on May 16, 2025. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
May 17, 2025, 2:55 am
US reportedly developing plan to resettle 1 million Gazans in Libya
NBC News says proposal is serious enough to have been discussed with Libyan leaders; unclear where in the North African country the Palestinians would live, or how they’d get there
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Gazan patients and their family members board flights to Italy and Romania on March 19, 2025. (Twitter/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Act)
May 9, 2025, 1:27 pm
Israel claims it’s promoting Palestinian emigration from Gaza. So why are so few leaving?
Despite saying it would act on Trump’s plan to depopulate the Strip, Israel has allowed around 600 people out since March, after months-long efforts by humanitarian groups and foreign governments
By Nurit Yohanan
Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto (L) speaks during an economic event titled "Strengthening Indonesia's Economic Resilience Amid the Wave of Trade Tariff Wars" in Jakarta on April 8, 2025. (Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)
April 9, 2025, 8:42 am
Indonesia willing to temporarily house 1,000 refugees from Gaza
‘We are ready to evacuate the wounded, the traumatized, the orphans,’ president says, adds Palestinians would be able to return once they’re healed and Gaza is safe enough to return to
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians flee from Shijaiyah, Gaza, on Thursday, April 3, 2025, after the Israeli military issued evacuation orders in the area. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
April 5, 2025, 1:48 am
‘Senior Israeli official’ claims multiple countries interested in taking in Gazans
Briefing reporters with Netanyahu in Hungary, official defends renewed Gaza campaign, says Israel can’t end war in exchange for hostages because Hamas wants irrevocable Security Council guarantee
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with Mossad chief David Barnea at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
March 28, 2025, 9:16 pm
Netanyahu said to task Mossad with finding countries to house Gazans
With Trump’s focus elsewhere, report says Israel has reached out to Sudan, Somalia, Indonesia and other nations about taking in Palestinians but the outreach has yet to bear fruit
By ToI Staff
US special envoy to the Mideast Steve Witkoff is interviewed on Tucker Carlson's podcast on March 21, 2025. (Screen capture/X)
March 22, 2025, 12:44 pm
Witkoff: Hamas isn’t ideologically intractable, Gaza conflict can end through dialogue
In candid podcast interview, top Trump aide indicates renewed IDF strikes may be necessary after Hamas intransigence, says PM ‘going up against Israeli public opinion that wants hostages back’
By Jacob Magid
Troops of the Gaza Division operate in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on March 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2025, 6:20 pm
Katz threatens to annex part of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas releases hostages
Hamas fires two rockets at Ashkelon in second attack in as many days, both are intercepted; IDF troops push further into Strip, blow up former hospital being used as Hamas base
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus, on March 10, 2025. (SANA via AP)
March 17, 2025, 7:28 pm
US, Israel see Syria as possible home for relocated Gazans, says report
Sources tell CBS that new government in Damascus has been approached as part of Trump’s Gaza plan, alongside Sudan and Somalia; Netanyahu’s office declines to comment
By Lazar Berman
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Palestinian Football Association, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 7, 2018 (Thaer Ganaim/APA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News)
March 13, 2025, 10:40 pm
Abbas may be the last PA leader who believes in two states, warns potential successor
Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises Abbas and urges US to engage with him, looking to remain in the Palestinian Authority chief’s good graces while no new election is slated
By Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump meets with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
March 13, 2025, 5:35 am
Trump says ‘nobody’s expelling any Palestinians,’ in apparent softening of Gaza plan
Oval Office comment marks first time US president has specified Gazans won’t be forced to leave enclave; Witkoff meets with Arab FMs to discuss their proposal for Strip’s future
By Jacob Magid
Posters of Israelis held hostage in Gaza are seen posted outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, under a banner reading: "First, the hostages!" on March 9, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
March 10, 2025, 10:17 am
Israeli negotiators set to head to Qatar for hostage talks, amid Gaza aid cut-off
US envoy Witkoff reportedly expected in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and in Doha on Wednesday; hostage families sleep outside Defense Ministry, demanding deal
By Agencies, Jessica Steinberg, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Demonstrators demanding the return of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza rally in Hostage Square, Tel Aviv, March 8, 2025. (Paulina Patimer/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
March 8, 2025, 10:52 pm
Negotiators to head to Qatar as Israel denies Hamas claim of progress on 2nd truce phase
Team to fly out Monday; Netanyahu holding security consultations as sides remain at loggerheads over how to move forward; Israel said planning escalatory campaign if talks fail
By Lazar Berman
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