Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, killing six Palestinians in one strike on the northern city of Beit Lahiya, a day after killing at least 60 in attacks across the enclave.
Ahmed Mansour, a journalist who suffered severe burns in Monday’s Israeli attack on a media tent near the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, has died of his wounds, taking the toll from that assault to at least three.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would like the war in Gaza to stop, as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
Trump said work was ongoing to free hostages held by Hamas, but said securing the release of all the hostages was “a long process.”
Asked if he would deliver on his promise during his campaign for president to end the war in Gaza, Trump said: “I’d like to see the war stop, and I think the war will stop at some point, that won’t be in the too-distant future.”
Trump said having “a peace force like the United States there controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing” and once again suggested that Palestinians from Gaza could be moved to different countries.
More than 50,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in Israel’s military onslaught since October 2023.​​​​​​​