News Wrap: Netanyahu visits U.S. leaders as Trump administration pushes for Gaza ceasefire
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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Continuing his visit to Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Vice President |
| 0:05.9 | J.D. Vance and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, today. Netanyahu's trip, his third this year, |
| 0:12.3 | comes as Israel and Hamas are negotiating the terms of a ceasefire proposal. Yesterday, the Prime Minister |
| 0:18.1 | floated the idea of resettling Palestinians abroad in foreign countries. |
| 0:22.6 | A move he said was supported by the United States. |
| 0:25.6 | Netanyahu is expected to meet with President Trump again tonight. |
| 0:29.6 | Lisa Desjardin reports. |
| 0:31.6 | Today in Washington, efforts to address and end the bloody Israel-Ghasa war. |
| 0:38.3 | Gaza is a tragic, it's a tragedy, it's a tragedy. |
| 0:43.3 | And he wants to get it solved and I want to get it solved. |
| 0:46.3 | And I think the other side wants to get itself. |
| 0:48.3 | He is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today meeting with leaders across the capital. |
| 1:00.3 | Hamas will not rule there. We will do what is necessary to make this happen. We will use all our possible force, and if possible, that of others, to realize this goal. There will be no Hamas, |
| 1:05.9 | and I say it again, because people are saying we can stop, we can leave. We will defeat them so they can no |
| 1:12.2 | longer fight us. This is a goal we will not give up on. This as other Israeli officials continue |
| 1:18.6 | indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas in Doha. The U.S.-backed proposal would see a 60-day ceasefire |
| 1:25.9 | with Hamas releasing hostages intermittently for 50 days in |
| 1:30.4 | exchange for Palestinian detainees. |
| 1:33.2 | There would be a humanitarian surge of aid from both the United Nations and the U.S.-backed |
| 1:38.3 | Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. |
| 1:40.9 | There is no guarantee of a permanent ceasefire, but President Trump would mediate until a final |
| 1:46.6 | agreement is reached. And the Israeli military would deploy to areas of Gaza on the first and seventh |
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