9 h. ago Trump’s Gaza plan involves ‘voluntary’ relocation of Palestinians – and giving them $5,000 each: report

Proposals reportedly being considered by White House would see six to eight ‘dynamic, modern and AI-powered smart planned cities’ erected on land torn apart by two years of war

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9 h. ago Gaza 'will be turned into tourism resort with entire two million population "voluntarily" moved to another country under plan circulating within Trump staff'

The Palestinian territory would turn into a trusteeship administered by the U.S. for the next 10 years, becoming a hub of high-tech manufacturing and technology.

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66 h. ago Revealed: What Tony Blair and President Trump spoke about during White House meeting on Gaza

The former Prime Minister held talks on the Middle East process with the US President and his son-in-law Jared Kushner , with whom he has worked with for months, on August 27.

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3 d. ago Donald Trump could stop Gaza’s famine. Instead he’s following Biden’s lead | Mohamad Bazzi

A hunger-monitoring group has confirmed what we already knew about Palestinians’ suffering. The US has the power to end itA global hunger-monitoring group declared last week that Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area were suffering from an “entirely man-made” famine, mostly caused by Israel’s deliberate starvation strategy and continued siege of the territory. This news won’t surprise anyone who has paid even scant attention to the images and videos of emaciated children and desperate parents that have been coming out of Gaza for months.But the first confirmation of famine by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which includes the World Food Programme, the World Health Organization and other aid agencies, is an important institutional marker. Years from now, it will serve as a reminder of how Israel used starvation as a weapon of war while western powers did nothing. And it will be a source of shame for all those who will inevitably claim that they didn’t ...

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3 d. ago Boycott the banquet, send a tweet. But ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world | Marina Hyde

This humanitarian catastrophe is barely of passing interest to Donald Trump. The curse of our times is how little we can do about itDay 222 of Donald Trump’s presidency, and Russia’s war in Ukraine – which he promised to end on day one – shows no sign of having got the memo. This was not a single-use Trump promise; he made it at least 53 times. Yet the US president has failed to keep it, either literally or in his favourite manner: figuratively. Can you figuratively end a war? Not even, apparently.What his most recent round of failure means, however, is that Trump is pivoting back to another war, the grotesquely horrifying and unlawful humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. Not the way he’d phrase it, possibly. This week he swerved commenting on either Israel’s invasion of Gaza City or the mounting declarations that famine and starvation are clearly under way in the territory, and instead announced: “I think within the next two, three weeks, you’re going to have a pretty good, ...

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4 d. ago Voices: Trump has a rival for that Nobel Peace Prize, now he’s let Blair into the White House

Those who've never forgiven Tony Blair for the Iraq war were horrified to discover the US president has sought his counsel on Gaza's future. Enough of such childish spite, says Sean O'Grady – the former PM is an ideally qualified adviser...

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4 d. ago Ed Davey accused of disrespecting the King after Lib Dem leader vows to BOYCOTT next month's state banquet for Donald Trump in protest over Gaza

Following an invitation by His Majesty, the US President is due to arrive in Britain for an historic second state visit between September 17 and 19.

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4 d. ago Tony Blair meets Donald Trump at White House for meeting on the future of Gaza

Sir Tony briefed the American president on ideas to rebuild the war-torn territory, a senior US official said

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4 d. ago Sir Tony Blair has briefed Donald Trump on how to rebuild Gaza 'when the war ends in the next four months'

The former Prime Minister held talks on the Middle East peace process with the US President and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at the White House.

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4 d. ago Blair joins Trump in White House talks on postwar plan for Gaza

Former UK leader involved in meeting as Israel prepares new invasion of enclave

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4 d. ago Trump holds White House talks on ‘comprehensive’ plan for Gaza

Meeting over future of besieged enclave comes as Israeli forces prepare new assault

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4 d. ago Lib Dem leader to boycott UK state banquet for Trump in Gaza protest

Sir Ed Davey accuses US president of being complicit in the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave

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4 d. ago Ed Davey to boycott King’s banquet for Trump over ‘horrifying’ Gaza war

Lib Dem leader suggests US president and Keir Starmer are hoping to ‘close their eyes and wish this away’ rather than act on escalating humanitarian crisis in the Strip

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5 d. ago Trump chooses not to end the Gaza slaughter. That’s why I’ll boycott the state dinner when he meets King Charles | Ed Davey

To refuse an invitation like this goes against all my instincts, but I want to send as strong a message as I canEd Davey is leader of the Liberal DemocratsLib Dem leader to boycott king’s Trump banquet in protest over GazaA mother holding a baby boy so thin from starvation you can see his skeleton. The lifeless bodies of children killed while queueing for water. Emaciated hostages, still held captive by Hamas almost two years after those appalling terror attacks.These images and countless more have horrified us all in recent months. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza must stop. The famine must end. The hostages must be returned home.Ed Davey is leader of the Liberal Democrats Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Liverpool plan next steps for blockbuster £190m transfer raid involving Alexander Isak

Newcastle are demanding £150million for Alexander Isak while Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi is valued at £40m - and Liverpool want to sign both players this summer

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5 d. ago Donald Trump to chair meeting on Gaza as US says it expects ‘to settle this before the end of this year’ – Middle East crisis live

US special envoy Steve Witkoff says ‘we think we’re going to settle this one way or another’ as Marco Rubio also prepares to meet Gideon Saar Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump says he expects ‘conclusive ending’ to Gaza war within two to three weeks

US president says there is a ‘very serious diplomatic push’ to end Israel’s war on the Palestinian territory

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6 d. ago Israel faces global outrage after deadly Gaza hospital strike and domestic protests over hostages

The United States, Britain, Egypt, France, and Spain denounced the hospital attack, while Germany called for an investigation

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7 d. ago Lammy condemns Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital that killed five journalists

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was ‘horrified’ by the attack on Nasser Hospital, in the south of the Gaza Strip.

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8 d. ago Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine

Breaking from most of her peers in Congress, far-right Georgia Republican has also described crisis as a genocideAmid mostly silence in Congress, some US lawmakers on opposite sides of the political spectrum spoke out Saturday over a UN-backed report warning of famine in parts of Gaza.“Let’s be clear: President Trump has the power to end the starvation of the Palestinian people,” Vermont’s politically independent senator Bernie Sanders posted on X. “Instead he is doing nothing while watching this famine unfold. Enough is enough. No more American taxpayer dollars to Nethanyahu’s [sic] war machine.” Continue reading...

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