Trump calls for ceasefire in Gaza as Israeli military orders more evacuations

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President Trump connected Sunday pleaded for advancement successful ceasefire talks that would halt the warring successful the 20-month-long struggle successful Gaza. The telephone for a woody came arsenic the Israeli subject ordered a caller wide evacuation successful bluish Gaza amid its escalating attacks connected the territory.

"MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!" Mr. Trump wrote aboriginal Sunday connected his societal media platform, Truth Social, successful betwixt posts astir a Senate ballot connected his taxation and spending cuts bill.

Mr. Trump raised expectations connected Friday erstwhile helium told reporters successful the Oval Office that determination could beryllium a ceasefire statement wrong the adjacent week.

"We're moving connected Gaza and trying to get it taken attraction of."

A apical advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cabinet Minister Ron Dermer, was acceptable to question to Washington this week for talks connected a ceasefire, an Israeli authoritative said.

The authoritative said plans were besides being made for Netanyahu to question to Washington successful the coming weeks, a motion determination whitethorn beryllium question connected a caller deal. The authoritative declined to sermon the absorption of the sojourn and spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon plans that had not yet been finalized.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly called for Israel and Hamas to extremity the astir two-year warfare successful the Gaza Strip. Despite an eight-week ceasefire reached conscionable arsenic Mr. Trump took bureau successful January, attempts to bring the sides toward a caller statement person failed, faltering implicit 1 large sticking point: whether the warfare should extremity arsenic portion of immoderate ceasefire agreement.

Mahmoud Merdawi, a Hamas official, accused Netanyahu of stalling advancement connected a deal, saying successful remarks connected the Telegram messaging app that the Israeli person insists connected a impermanent statement that would escaped conscionable 10 of the hostages.

Netanyahu spokesperson Omer Dostri said: "Hamas was the lone obstacle to ending the war," without addressing Merdawi's claim.

Food distributed to Palestinians warring hunger successful Gaza

Hamas says it is consenting to escaped each the hostages successful speech for a afloat withdrawal of Israeli troops and an extremity to the war. Israel rejects that offer, saying it volition hold to extremity the warfare if Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, thing the radical refuses.

The war successful Gaza began connected Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and taking astir 250 hostage, astir 50 of whom stay captive, with little than fractional believed to beryllium alive.

Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry connected Sunday said an further 88 radical were killed by Israeli occurrence implicit the past 24 hours, raising the decease toll to 56,500 successful implicit 20 months of fighting. The ministry does not separate betwixt militants and civilians successful their number but says much than fractional of the dormant are women and children.

The Israeli subject connected Sunday ordered a wide evacuation of Palestinians successful ample swaths of bluish Gaza. Col. Avichay Adraee, a subject spokesperson, posted the bid connected societal media. It includes aggregate neighborhoods successful eastbound and bluish Gaza City, arsenic good arsenic the Jabaliya exile camp.

Trump slams Netanyahu corruption trial

The Gaza connection wasn't the lone Middle East-related station by Mr. Trump this weekend. On Saturday evening, helium doubled down connected his disapproval of the ineligible proceedings against Netanyahu, who is connected proceedings for alleged corruption, calling it "a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, precise akin to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure." It comes conscionable days aft the president intervened to enactment Netanyahu's onslaught connected Iran's atomic program, utilizing special U.S. bunker buster bombs.

In the post connected Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the proceedings interfered with talks connected a Gaza ceasefire.

"(Netanyahu) is close present successful the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which volition see getting the Hostages back. How is it imaginable that the Prime Minister of Israel tin beryllium forced to beryllium successful a Courtroom each time long, implicit NOTHING," Mr. Trump wrote.

The station echoed akin remarks Mr. Trump made past week erstwhile helium called for the proceedings to beryllium canceled. Legal experts accidental it is antithetic for a adjacent state of 1 authorities to interfere truthful straight successful the home affairs of another, particularly erstwhile it concerns an ongoing tribunal case.

The proceedings has repeatedly been postponed astatine the petition of Netanyahu, citing information and diplomatic developments. On Sunday, the tribunal agreed to telephone disconnected 2 much days of grounds by Netanyahu scheduled this week.