The U.S. President didn’t give a date for the face-to-face meeting, but said it would take place ‘very soon’
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talk during a joint news conference in the White House in Washington in 2020.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 4, the prime minister’s office said in a statement on Tuesday.said Netanyahu would travel “very soon” to Washington to meet with him but did not say when the meeting would take place.
“I’d like to get them living in an area where they can live without disruption and revolution and violence,” Trump said of Palestinians in Gaza. Jordan is already home to several million Palestinians, while tens of thousands live in Egypt. Both countries pushed back over the weekend after Trump said they should take in Palestinians from Gaza, where Israel’s military assault has caused a humanitarian crisis and killed tens of thousands.
The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
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