Day 762 - US plans for 'new Gaza' are win for Israel
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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Summary
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Jessica Steinberg for today's episode.
As discussions continue about Jared Kushner's concept of 'new Gaza,' residential neighborhoods constructed for Gazans on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line, Magid discusses the lack of support for the plans from some of the Gulf donor countries, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Those countries have concerns that the plan maintains the status quo of Israeli control and leaves Hamas entrenched in Gaza.
There are also questions as to which countries are ultimately willing to send troops to guard borders and help deliver aid, and whether those troops will be involved in peacekeeping missions or peace-enforcing missions, says Magid, noting that the US wants the missions to demilitarize Gaza.
The US is pushing Israel on the matter of offering safe passage for a couple of hundred Hamas operatives still in Gaza tunnels, either letting them go back to the Hamas side of the yellow ceasefire line, says Magid, or offering them safe passage to another country, while forcing them to give up their weapons.
The issue of allowing the press into Gaza now that there is a ceasefire in place is also being pushed by the US. Magid notes that Israel's High Court of Justice gave the government 30 days to update its position. US President Donald Trump is also weighing in, says Magid, who notes that it is more likely to be settled in Israel's High Court.
Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
US looks to build ‘new Gaza’ on half of Strip under IDF control, but faces pushback
US pressures Israel to allow safe passage for 100 to 200 Hamas operatives in Rafah
With ceasefire in place, US renews request for Israel to allow foreign press into Gaza
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IMAGE: Palestinians seen along the Gaza City seafront, following the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, October 18, 2025 (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. It is Thursday, November 6th, and I'm Jessica Steinberg. |
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| 0:42.0 | As you can see, I'm speaking today with US Bureau Chief Jacob. Hi, Jacob. How you doing? |
| 0:48.5 | Hi, Jessica. Good to be with you. Apologies in advance. I got a little bit of a cold, but bear with me. |
| 0:54.1 | Well, we'll put up with you. It is day little bit of a cold, but bear with me. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, we'll put up with you. It is day 762 of the war. The IDF received a casket with an apparent body of a hostage from Gaza on Wednesday night. If it is one of the remaining hostages, |
| 1:08.5 | there will be six slaying captives remaining in the strip. |
| 1:11.8 | Free hostage, Ron Braslovsky says in an excerpt of an interview that will be viewed on |
| 1:18.0 | Israeli television in the next coming days, he said that Islamic jihad captors sexually assaulted |
| 1:24.8 | and tortured him. We'll obviously be covering that as it comes out. |
| 1:29.8 | Jacob and I will talk about U.S. plans for a new Gaza, quote unquote, a possible safe passage as well |
| 1:37.0 | for a couple of hundred of Hamasq operatives in Rafa, and whether foreign media, foreign press, will be allowed into Gaza, |
| 1:46.8 | as the U.S. talks about that with Israel. |
| 1:49.5 | Stay with us. |
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