President Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, several people acquaintance with the meeting, confirmed CBS News on Saturday.
Leaders are expected to focus on the latest Israeli military operations in gas and new US tariffs announced by Mr. Trump against Israel and other countries, the Associated Press reports.
This will be their second meeting of the second term of Mr. Trump. The last two met in Washington, District Colombia in FebruaryIf Mr. Trump submitted your plan For the US “take gas” and turn it into “Riviera of the Middle East.”
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The meeting of both leaders comes against the backdrop of gas that the Israeli military is aimed at pressure on Hamas to release the rest of the hostages and, eventually, expel a group of militants.
Israel announces new corridors
Meanwhile, Israel says he has placed troops in a recently created security corridor in southern gas. Netanyahu announced the new corridor Morara on Saturday and suggested that he cut off the southern city of Rafa, which Israel ordered the evacuation from the rest of the gas.
A military statement said on Saturday that troops with the 36th division were located in the hall. It was not immediately clear how many of them were deployed and where exactly the corridor was located. The moral is the name of the Jewish settlement, which once stood between Rafa and Khan UNIS, and Netanyahu suggested that it would work between the cities.
The maps published by Israeli media have shown a new corridor that manages the width of the narrow coastal strip from east to west.
Netanyahu said it would be the “second corridor of Philadelph”, referring to the side of the gas with Egypt further south, which is under the control of Israel from last May.
Israel also resumed control over the corridor, which cut off the northern third of the gas, including in Gaza, from the rest of the strip. Philadelphic and nitrous corridors pass from the Israeli border to the Mediterranean.
Hamas says the situation is “very dangerous” for hostages
Hamas, which has long been appointed terrorist organization Israel and the United States before he conducted a tough attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, which caused caused War in gasHe stated on Friday that he continued his offensive in Israel in Gaza creates a “very dangerous” situation for the hostages that are still being held there. He warned that half of the living captives were in areas where the Israeli army ordered evacuation.
“Half of the living Israeli (hostages) is located in areas that the Israeli occupation army has asked to evacuate in recent days,” AFP said. “We decided not to convey these (hostages) … but (this situation) is very dangerous for their lives.”
Hamas states that only the remaining 59 hostages will come out – 24 of which are allegedly alive – in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a strong ceasefire and an Israeli gas output. The group rejected the demands to put her hands or leave the territory.
Israel issued extensive evacuation orders for parts of northern gas on the eve of the expected extensions in its terrestrial operations. The UN Humanitarian Service said about 280,000 Palestinians have been moved since Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas last month, which was initiated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.
To press on Hamas, Israel imposed monthly blockade About food, fuel and humanitarian aid, which has left civilians who face a sharp deficiency because deliveries are reduced – the tactics that, according to rights, are a war crime. Earlier this week, Israel stated that enough food had entered the gas during a six -week truce to support approximately 2 million Palestinians.
The war began when the militants led by Hamas attacked Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killed by about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and having taken away 251 hostages, most of whom have since been released in the ceasefire and other transactions. Israel saved eight living hostages and restored dozens of bodies.
According to the Ministry of Health Gaza, more than 50,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza in Gaza in the framework of the Israeli offensive, which does not say whether civilians or fighting participants were killed. The ministry states that more than half of the dead were women and children. Israel says about 20,000 militants were killed without providing evidence.
He contributed to this report.