Netanyahu signals openness to Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan: Sources

Israeli forces killed 47 Palestinians and wounded 142 others in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health said on Friday afternoon.

That brings the Palestinian death toll in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, to 65,549, according to the health ministry.

Among those killed over the past day were five people trying to collect humanitarian aid, while another 33 were injured, the health ministry said.

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Doctors Without Borders announced on Friday that it has suspended all medical activities in Gaza City due to the danger created by the increased Israeli offensive on the city, "including continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than half a mile from our health care facilities," the humanitarian medical group said.

"The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable level of risk for our staff, forcing us to suspend lifesaving medical activities," DWB said in a statement Friday.

The aid group continues to provide care in other parts of Gaza -- in Khan Younis, the middle area of Gaza and Deir al-Balah -- but warns that conditions are rapidly deteriorating and called for an end to the offensive.

"We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces," said Jacob Granger, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza. "This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza City are enormous, with the most vulnerable people -- infants in neonatal care, those with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses -- unable to move and in grave danger."

While many have fled the city to southern Gaza, hundreds of thousands remain and have "no other option but to stay," DWB said.

"Those who can leave face an impossible choice: either remain in Gaza City under intense military operations and the deterioration of law and order, or abandon what's left of their houses, their belongings, and their memories to move to areas where humanitarian conditions continue to collapse. There is no safe space in Gaza," DWB said.

President Donald Trump, leaving the White House on Friday to attend the Ryder Cup in New York, spoke to reporters and said he believed there may be a deal on Gaza.

"It's looking like we have a deal on Gaza, and we'll let you know," Trump said. "I think it's a deal that will get he hostages back. It's going to be a deal that will end the war. It's going to be a deal -- it's going to be peace. I think we have a deal."

Trump didn't elaborate on what the plan would entail. His comments come after recent reports of a Gaza plan that would see former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair head a temporary administration of the Gaza Strip.

Speaking to leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to make the case that Israel's fight is an American and European fight.

Netanyahu criticized world leaders that have opposed Israel's military incursion on Gaza saying "over time many word leaders buckled."

"As we fight the terrorists who murdered your citizens, you are fighting us, you condemn us, you embargo us and you wage political and legal warfare against us. This is not an indictment of Israel this is an indictment of you," Netanyahu said.

Right as Netanyahu took the podium, General Assembly delegates staged a walk out.

Netanyahu pushed back on claims that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and deliberately starving the Palestinians in Gaza.

"What a joke," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu criticized the move by western nations including France, the U.K., Canada and Belgium to recognize the state of Palestine, saying it was "horribly wrong" decision that will encourage "terrorism against Jews."