Middle East crisis live: Trump says US should turn Gaza into ‘freedom zone’ as more than 50 killed in Israeli strikes

US president’s reported comments in Qatar come as dozens killed in a second consecutive night of heavy bombing

It was a short distance but a very long journey from a bombed-out hospital in Gaza to the Jordanian border. Zeinab al Astal arrived with her two sick sons as dusk was falling on Wednesday evening, and she seemed stunned they had made it at all.

Twenty-four hours earlier she had been watching chunks of ceiling crash down to the floor around them, after Israel bombed the European hospital in Khan Younis where they were staying.

TRUMP said wants a Gaza “freedom zone.”

“I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good: Make it a freedom zone, let the United States get involved,” he told us in Doha, Qatar.