President Donald Trump was reportedly gifted two beepers — one common and one golden — from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the leaders met in Washington, D.C., this week.
The items had been reportedly “a nod to” Israel’s lethal September 2024 operation during which it exploded lots of of pagers and different units utilized by members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon and Syria, an Israeli official instructed The Related Press.
Trump, per the official, reportedly responded to the current: “That was a major operation.”
Netanyahu acquired a photograph of himself with Trump from the U.S. president.
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Netanyahu’s go to generated headlines Tuesday when Trump, throughout a joint press convention, floated his plan for the U.S. to personal, raze after which develop the Gaza Strip, which might imply the compelled relocation of as much as 2 million Palestinians.
It might develop into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” prompt Trump.
“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” the president stated. “We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs.”
Netanyahu described Trump’s thought as “worth paying attention to.”
Trump “sees a different future for Gaza” and “it’s something that could change history,” he added.
However Arab international locations instantly rejected the thought.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prompt Trump’s plan would quantity to “a serious violation of international law.”
Critics in America argued it might be a flat-out contradiction of Trump’s bid to finish U.S. interventionism, highlighting how Trump in his first weeks again in workplace has already talked about seizing management of the Panama Canal, shopping for Greenland from Denmark and by some means turning Canada into the 51st state.
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