Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. It is Thursday, February 6th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. I'm speaking today with political correspondent Sam Sokol and reporter Diana Bledder. Good morning to you both. Morning. Hello, Jessica. Hello to you both. It is day 489 of the war.

Two soldiers were killed and eight wounded as a crane collapsed on troops in Gaza due to the strong winds in the region right now.

As U.S. President Donald Trump's statements regarding Gaza continue to make waves, his statements regarding the temporary transplanting of

Gazans during the expectedly prolonged reconstruction period, world leaders reacted quickly,

as did local politicians. We'll talk about their comments and their thoughts, and we'll also

take a look at life up north right now now as some of the thousands, tens of thousands

of Ackuys return and others have actually never left their homes. So stay with us. We'll be back in a

moment.

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Okay, Sam. So first, yesterday I was doing the podcast with Jacob, and of course we went over

all of President Trump's many comments regarding his ideas about Gaza and Palestinians in Gaza.

And that was before Israeli politicians had presumably woken up and started to make their own comments and statements about all of this.

So take us through what you were hearing yesterday, what people were saying, for some politicians on Israel's

right, on the coalition's right, of course, this is music to their ears, this idea. But take us

through what you think really resonated as you were reporting on this yesterday. Well, I mean,

just to recap very briefly, what President Trump said with Prime Minister

Netanyahu at the White House was to reiterate his proposal, which has been roundly rejected

by Arab nations, to permanently relocate the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, which has

been devastated over the course of the war. He called it a giant demolition site and basically said you need another location where people

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