Netanyahu arrives at the White House
Israel’s prime minister has been welcomed at the White House with a handshake from Trump. Trump ignored questions shouted by journalists about the dipping global markets and his tariffs on Israel.
Israeli media is reporting that Netanyahu took a longer flight path to Washington to avoid the risk of an emergency landing in countries that would enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him.
Convicted felon hosting wanted war criminal.
Trump-Netanyahu press conference cancelled
A press conference scheduled with Trump and Netanyahu after their meeting will no longer take place, the White House has just announced.
There was no immediate reason given for the change, but the two leaders are still due to meet in front of reporters in the Oval Office.
Netanyahu: Israel working on deal to get remaining captives out of Gaza
During a news briefing at the White House with Trump, Israel’s prime minister says his team is working on a deal to get more captives out of Gaza.
US trying very hard to get captives out: Trump
US President Donald Trump says the US and Israel are “trying very hard to get the hostages out”. “We want to get the hostages out,” Trump said alongside Netanyahu. “Israeli people want the hostages out more than anything.
“We are looking at another ceasefire, we’ll see what happens.”
You sabotaged the ceasefire with your ethnic cleansing plan and gave Israel the green light to go back to full scale genocide. The lives of the hostages are on you. The rest would have been home by now if you let the ceasefire actually succeed.
Netanyahu, Trump reiterate taking control of Gaza
Trump and Netanyahu have reiterated their expulsion plans to clear Gaza of Palestinians, with the latter saying that there are countries that want to allow people of Gaza in. The Israeli PM said that there are some countries that say “if Gazans want to leave, we want to take them in”.
Neither Netanyahu nor Trump named the countries they were talking about.
Iran in ‘great danger’ if talks with US fail: Trump
Trump confirmed that a “high-level” meeting between US and Iran will be taking place on Saturday. Answering a question by a reporter, he added that Iran would be in “great danger” if those talks fail.
“I think if the talks aren’t successful with Iran, I think Iran’s going to be in great danger. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and if the talks aren’t successful I actually think it will be a very bad day for Iran.”
