President Donald Trump repeated a proposal for the United States to take control of Gaza, saying he would make it a "freedom zone". Gaza is in the middle of a war between Israel and Hamas, which erupted after the October 7 attack, and much of the territory has been reduced to rubble.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 70 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health authorities said, in an intensification of the bombardment as U.S. President Donald Trump visits the Middle East.

This is not the first time Trump has made territorial claims on Gaza. Earlier this year, the Republican leader suggested that he could “own” Gaza and resettle its population, a plan that Israeli Prime

There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 50 Palestinians, local health authorities said, as President Donald Trump continued his visit to the Middle East.

Donald Trump also said that the United States was nearing a nuclear deal with Iran, and that Tehran had “sort of” agreed to the terms.

The U.S. needs to pay off debt before establishing a sovereign wealth fund, President Donald Trump said on Thursday, signalling a potential shift to plans to create a fund within a year.

Trump headed to Doha on Wednesday to be feted by a monarchy that Netanyahu accused less than a fortnight ago of “playing both sides” in Gaza and refusing to take sides against “Hamas’s barbarism”. Asked en route whether his trip had sidelined Israel, Trump said it had not.

It was the second night of heavy bombing, after airstrikes on Wednesday on northern and southern Gaza killed at least 70 people.

Iran “must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars and permanently and verifiably cease pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Trump said in remarks at a meeting of leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council hosted by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi capital. “They cannot have a nuclear weapon.”