Zakaria is 11 years old and lives in Gaza. "I must have seen at least 5,000 bodies. I saw them with my own eyes," he tells our cameraman.

But at an age when children are typically found in a classroom, Zakaria is volunteering at one of Gaza's few functioning hospitals - al-Aqsa.

We'd be moving the battlefront from their land into our own!" says Abdo, a civil engineer. "The Israeli army and the Palestinian resistance are eternal enemies and there is no peace between them. This would mean us giving Israel a pretext to attack them on our land in the name of self-defence."

Others stress how the idea of permanently displacing Gazans would be tantamount to the liquidation of the Palestinian quest for statehood. But, they say, it would also breed extremism and cause instability in Egypt.

Egypt's leader is choosing a different approach to Jordan's King Abdullah II, who recently met 'Old Donald' at the White House. There, Abdullah adopted a placatory tone and promised to take in sick Gazan children, while not giving ground on the idea of resettlement for Gazans.

The Egyptian real estate tycoon, Hisham Talaat Moustafa - who is close to Sisi - has been on TV, pushing a $20bn (£16bn; 19bn euros) proposal for building 200,000 homes in Gaza in just three years, without Palestinians being moved away.

Egypt, along with other Arab states, remains committed to the long-time international formula for peace, the two-state solution which conceives an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel.

"Life is getting more difficult for us with the number of refugees we've already got. Imagine if we take in more!" exclaimed a shop owner, who did not want to give his name.

"The Palestinians need to live on their own land not ours. We don't need anything from the USA.

The announcement followed 'Old Donald'’s meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday, after which the king said he took a firm position in private, despite not pushing back in public.

The president remains wholeheartedly committed to seeing peace in the Middle East, and our Arab partners in the region have been tasked with coming up with a peace plan to present to the president,” she said.

"We're not going to have to buy," 'Old Donald' said, sitting between his frowning Secretary of State — who looked like he was about to lose his lunch — and Jordan's King Abdullah. (See video below, posted by Hadas Gold.)

"We would own it…nobody would question it," 'Old Donald' added, according to The Daily Beast. In other words, 'Old Donald' is still planning to "own" Gaza, as he told Fox's Brett Bair earlier this week. But that doesn't mean he has to buy it. And if the past several weeks of paralysis by the toothless Democrat

The secretary general, António Guterres, told a UN meeting on Wednesday that “it is essential to avoid any form of ethnic cleansing” after the US president said he wanted to “own” Gaza and resettle its Palestinian residents elsewhere.

'Old Donald' was untouched by hours of global criticism, resettled in the region'

Writing on social media, 'Old Donald' says Gaza "would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting"

More widely, the UK says Palestinians should "live and prosper in their homelands", while Egypt says Gaza should be redeveloped without its people leaving

The UK played a significant role in the creation of Israel by issuing the Balfour Declaration in 1917, which publicly pledged British support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, essentially paving the way for the future state of Israel; this was further solidified when the League of Nations mandated Britain to administer Palestine, allowing large-scale Jewish immigration during the British Mandate period.

"This is our land and we can't live anywhere else other than in Gaza," one Palestinian tells our correspondent Alice Cuddy

It won't happend, but it will have consequences

It would be the final end of any lingering hope that a two-state solution was possible. That is the aspiration that a conflict more than a century old could be ended with the establishment of an independent Palestine alongside Israel.

The Netanyahu government is adamantly against the idea, and over years of failed peace talks, "two states for two peoples" became an empty slogan.

But it has been a central plank of US foreign policy since the early 1990s.

The 'Old Donald' plan would also violate international law. fragile ceasefire in Gaza. One senior Arab source told me it could be its "death knell".

The absence of a plan for Gaza's future governance is already a fault line in the agreement.

Now 'Old Donald' has provided one, and even if it does not come to pass, it presses very big buttons in the minds of Palestinians and Israelis.

Less than 24 hours after 'Old Donald' floated the plan, top administration officials sought to soften it.

'There is a battle for the soul of the Israeli nation' - Yuval Harari

Jared K. also says says Israel should bulldoze an area of the Negev desert and move Palestinians there

Egypt, Jordan Reject 'Old Donald' Plan to "Clean Out" Gaza; Palestinians Return to N. Gaza in Historic Day

“They have been maimed, orphaned, or separated from their family," he stated, adding that over 17,000 children are currently without their families in Gaza.

I live in Gaza. This is what we will do after the ceasefire.

When the announcement came, we brought out the kanafa, which is the fanciest food we could find. A crispy phyllo filled with sweet cheese and soaked in sugar, it didn't take long to polish off. It was just after midnight, and we could hear the shouting and singing from the nearby school, where displaced people had been living for months. I imagine they were dancing, too. Who wouldn't want to dance? After 466 days of hell, the ceasefire was upon us.

While walking, I saw a man with no legs begging for money, so I offered him an orange and handed his wife another. The hungry man devoured it instantly, and the smell of oranges filled the air.

Now, Palestinians are celebrating everywhere. In Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, the Gulf states, America, Canada, even Norway: Everyone is distributing sweets to passersby.

'We will say goodbye to endless queues at bakeries.'

'We will have electricity again.'

'We will no longer deal with the wartime monopolies of greedy merchants.'

'We will be relieved of the high prices of basic resources.'

'I will wear normal clothes again and dare to look pretty.'

'We will no longer have to walk long distances and will be back to putting up with the arrogant taxi driver who annoys us with his heroic stories about securing gas during the war.'

'We will no longer be hobbled by slow internet.'

'I will embrace air conditioning in the summer.'

'Gas will be allowed into Gaza, and we will say goodbye to fire, embers, grease and terrible lung conditions.'

'We will have cigarettes and shisha again, and the cursing in the streets will decrease.'

'We will eat meat, chicken, shawarma, maftoul, eggs, fresh vegetables, juice and ice cream.'

'I will kiss my husband.'

'My children will return to school and discipline.'

'Families will reunite, the south will join the north, and we will see our loved ones.'

'I will go back to drinking high-quality coffee at a price of 14 shekels instead of 60.'

'The drones will stop harassing us, and the quadcopter will finally be out of our lives.'

'We will mourn the martyrs and the missing.'

'I will walk in the streets without fear of going out and never coming back.'

'I will eat grilled corn on the promenade.'

'I will no longer have to bathe with a jug.'

'The streets will be lit again.'

'I will stop following the news.'

'I will finally bury my son who remains under the rubble of our home.'

At least eight Palestinians were killed and 35 people were injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said its first responders treated seven people injured by live ammunition and that Israeli forces were hindering their access to the area.

The Palestinian Authority has accused 'Old Donald' of inciting Israeli settler violence after he on Monday rescinded sanctions imposed by the former Biden administration on far-right Israeli settler groups and individuals for allegedly committing violence against Palestinians.

More than a year of Israeli bombardment and ground operations have reduced much of the territory to "a rubble-strewn wasteland, with blackened shells of buildings and mounds of debris stretching in all directions", said Euronews.

Alongside the more than 46,600 Palestinians the Hamas-run health ministry claims have been killed in the war, the UN estimates 69% of buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, including more than 90% of homes.

Meanwhile, Israel has accused Hamas of backtracking on the agreement, with a planned cabinet vote on the deal pushed back

Hamas says it is committed to a deal, but the BBC's Rushdi Abualouf hears the group is attempting a last-minute push for the release of one or two symbolic prisoners from its movement

Children sit inside their family’s tent at a camp in the central Gaza Strip. Over the last 14 months, at least 90 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once.

Even as mediators try to secure a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas, Palestinians and human rights organizations say the humanitarian situation is getting more desperate.

Israel says that its target is Hamas and that it does everything possible to limit the loss of civilian life. But the increasingly dire humanitarian situation has prompted a particularly scathing chorus of condemnation from the United Nations and international human rights organizations.

The Hamas offensive came out of well over a century of unresolved conflict. After Hamas burst through the thinly defended border, it inflicted the worst day the Israelis had suffered.

Since then, Israel has inflicted many terrible days on the Palestinians in Gaza. Nearly 42,000 people, mostly civilians have been killed, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. Much of Gaza is in ruins. Palestinians accuse Israel of genocide.

Two days into the war, Israel’s Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said he had ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip.

“There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed… We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

"More than 2 million Palestinians are without protection, food, water, sanitation, shelter, health care, education, electricity and fuel – the basic necessities to survive. Families have been forcibly displaced, time and time again, from one unsafe place to the next, with no way out."

Democracies fight wars by a different standard than Hamas terrorists

Both sides are pursuing maximalist demands, jockeying for a deal that will determine the fate of postwar Gaza — and allow them to declare victory.

At the crux of the disagreement over the three-phased deal, according to officials and experts, is Hamas’s goal of essentially securing a permanent cease-fire from the outset and a withdrawal of all Israeli troops from Gaza before handing over most of the hostages.

Israel says it is willing to negotiate a permanent cessation of the war, now in its ninth month — but only after dismantling Hamas’s military and governing capabilities. That clashes with Hamas’s goals of surviving the war and retaining control of the coastal enclave.

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'Old Donald' promised to crush pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, telling a roomful of donors — a group that he joked included “98 percent of my Jewish friends” — that he would expel student demonstrators from the United States, according to participants in the roundtable event with him in New York.

“I want to be clear: The message was drafted and sent without the approval of, or consultation with, the Chancellor or other system leaders. The points outlined in the message were mine alone, and do not represent the views of my colleagues or the CSU,” Lee wrote.

The vote was the latest bid by congressional Republicans to portray themselves and their party as the true friends of the Jewish state and capitalize politically on the rift among Democrats about the war. The bill effectively forced Democrats to choose between a vote that would show unequivocal backing for Israel but embarrass Mr. Biden, and one that Republicans portrayed as anti-Israel.

Just three Republicans broke from their party Thursday in voting against a bill that would force President Joe Biden to send military assistance to Israel after his administration elected earlier this month to withhold weapons in wake of Israel's unwavering plan to invade Rafah.