Israel Pounds Gaza; Trump, Netanyahu
Tout Plan to Displace Palestinians
Lyndal Rowlands / Al Jazeera

(July 8, 2925) — US President Donald Trump has held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, with both leaders touting their controversial proposal to push besieged Palestinians into neighbouring countries.

Their meeting comes as Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians on Monday, and Israeli negotiators and Hamas held indirect talks in Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 57,523 people and wounded 136,617, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.

Israeli Forces Kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza

The Wafa news agency is reporting that at least 13 people have been killed in Gaza since the early hours of this morning.

Here are the details:

• Al-Shifa Hospital said four people were killed, including a baby, in an Israeli attack on a house in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza City.
• The Al-Ahli Arab Hospital said two people were killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.
• Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah said one person was killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack on Deir el-Balah.
• Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said it received the bodies of two people killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Khan Younis-Western Rafah road.
• Four people from one family were also killed in an Israeli attack on a tent where displaced Palestinians were staying in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.