Trump to meet with Netanyahu in the White House in the middle of Israel

Leaders are expected to focus on the last Israeli military operations in Gaza and new US tariffs announced by Trump against Israel and other countries.

The Netanyahu office then confirmed in a statement that he had received an invitation from Mr. Trump and will fly to the United States Sunday, saying that the two leaders will also discuss “Israeli-Turkish relations, the Iranian threat and the fight in the International Criminal Court.”

“The prime minister appreciates the personal and warm relationship with President Trump, and thanks him for inviting him to be the first leader to meet with him after the imposition of global tariffs, just as he was the first leader to meet him after entering the White House,” reads the statement.

This would be his second meeting of Mr. Trump’s second term. The two were for the last time in Washington, DC in Februarywhen Mr. Trump He announced his plan For the United States to take over Gaza “and make it” the Riviera del Middle East. ”

The meeting of the two leaders is produced in the middle of an offensive intensified in Gaza that the Israeli army said that it aims to press Hamas to free the remaining hostages and, finally, expel the militant group.

Israel announces new runners

Meanwhile, Israel says that it has deployed troops to a security corridor recently established in southern Gaza. Netanyahu announced the new Morag corridor on Saturday and suggested that the southern city of Rafah would cut, which Israel ordered evacuated, of the rest of Gaza.

A military statement on Saturday said that the 36th division troops had been deployed in the corridor. It was not clear immediately how many had been deployed or where exactly the corridor was. Morag is the name of a Jewish settlement that once brought itself between Rafah and Khan Younis, and Netanyahu suggested that it would extend between the cities.

The maps published by the Israeli media showed that the new corridor had the width of the narrow coastal strip from this to west.

Netanyahu said it would be “a second Filadelphic corridor”, referring to the side of Gaza de la Frontera with Egypt further south, which has been under Israeli control since last May.

Israel has also reaffirmed control over the Netzarim corridor that cuts the northern third of Gaza, including the city of Gaza, of the rest of the strip. Filadelpho and Netzarim corridors range from the Israeli border to the Mediterranean Sea.

Hamas says that the situation is “very dangerous” for hostages

Hamas, who for a long time had been designated as a terrorist organization by Israel and the United States even before the brutal attack of October 7, 2023 against Israel that caused The war in Gazasaid Friday that the ongoing offensive of Israel in Gaza was creating a “very dangerous” situation for hostages that are still celebrated there. He warned that half of the living captives were in areas where the Israeli army had ordered evacuations.

“Half of the living Israelis (hostages) are found in areas that the Israeli occupation army has requested to be evacuated in recent days,” said Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Navy Wing of Hamas, in a statement, News reported. “We have decided not to transfer these (hostages) … but (this situation) is very dangerous for their lives.”

Hamas says that he will only release the remaining 59 hostages, 24 of which they are believed to be alive, in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a high durable fire and an Israeli expulsion from Gaza. The group has rejected the demands to place their arms or leave the territory.

Israel has issued radical evacuation orders for northern Gaza before the expected expansions in its land operations. The UN Humanitarian Office said that around 280,000 Palestinians have been displaced since Israel allegedly ended up the fire with Hamas last month that had been negotiated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

To press Hamas, Israel has imposed a one -month blockade of food, fuel and humanitarian aid that has left civilians facing acute shortage as supplies decreases, a tactic that the rights groups say that it is a war crime. Israel said earlier this week that sufficient food had entered Gaza during a six -week truce to keep the approximately 2 million Palestinians in the territory for a long time.

The war began when militants led by Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, most of whom have been released in agreements of high fire and other agreements. Israel rescued eight living hostages and has recovered dozens of bodies.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as part of the Israel offensive, which does not say if those killed are civilians or combatants. The ministry says that more than half of those killed were women and children. Israel says he has killed about 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

Jennifer Jacobs contributed to this report.

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