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Trump's Gaza Plan Derails Saudi-Israel Ties: Analysts

This is Beirut, 2025-02-07 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump's plan to take over Gaza will imperil attempts to forge landmark ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel and fuel anti-American sentiment in the oil-rich kingdom, analysts said. Trump's proposal to redevelop Gaza and oust the more than two million Palestinians living in the territory prompted a global backlash and enraged ...

Trump's Controversial Gaza Proposal Sparks Global Opposition

This is Beirut, 2025-02-06 16:20 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday, February 5, a controversial plan during his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The plan involves placing the Gaza Strip under US authority, citing the purpose of rebuilding the region, a move that has ignited widespread global backlash. Trump described the ...

US Administration Backtracks on Trump's Plan for Gaza

This is Beirut, 2025-02-06 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump's administration appeared to backtrack Wednesday after his proposal to take over Gaza sparked uproar, with the United Nations warning against "ethnic cleansing" in the Palestinian territory. Facing a wave of criticism from Palestinians, Arab governments and world leaders, Trump's Secretary of State ...

Rubio Says Trump Meant Only Temporary Gaza Move for Rebuilding

This is Beirut, 2025-02-05 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump only wants Palestinians to leave Gaza temporarily while the territory is reconstructed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. Trump stunned the world and drew condemnation when he proposed Tuesday at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the United States could take over war-battered ...

Arab League Rejects Trump Gaza Proposal as 'Recipe for Instability'

This is Beirut, 2025-02-05 17:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Arab League said on Wednesday that a shock suggestion by US President Donald Trump to take over Gaza and displace Palestinians would violate international law and cause further instability. While "confident in the United States and its president's desire to achieve a just peace in the region", the Arab League's secretariat said Trump's ...

Trump Wants US to Take Over Gaza and Rebuild it

This is Beirut, 2025-02-05 13:43 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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President Donald Trump revealed an extraordinary plan Tuesday for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip, resettle Palestinians in other countries – seemingly whether they wanted to leave or not – and turn the territory into "the Riviera of the Middle East." Trump made the stunning proposal to audible gasps during a ...

Trump Says 'No Guarantees' Gaza Truce Will Hold

This is Beirut, 2025-02-03 22:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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US President Donald Trump said on Monday there were "no guarantees" that a fragile ceasefire in Gaza will hold, as he prepares to discuss its future with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu was in Washington for talks with the new Trump administration on a second phase of the truce with Hamas, which has not yet been ...

Mitigated or Stifled Transitions?

Charles Chartouni, 2025-02-03 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The transitions in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza are still controversial, and their actors are undecided about their outcomes. Observers ask whether the various actors are genuinely interested in the transformative courses and to what extent. The newly set dynamics that have taken place throughout the Near East have not yet been relayed by steadier, ...

Hamas and Israel Complete Fourth Hostage-Prisoner Swap Under Gaza Ceasefire

This is Beirut, 2025-02-01 19:59 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

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Hamas freed three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 180 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli custody, marking the fourth such swap under a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the war in Gaza. Hostages Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas were paraded on stage by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in the ...

Egypt's Sisi Tells Trump the World is 'Counting on' Him for Middle East Peace

This is Beirut, 2025-02-01 18:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told his US counterpart, Donald Trump, on Saturday that the world was relying on him 'to reach a permanent and historic peace agreement' to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Saturday's phone call marked the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians from ...

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