AT LEAST 49 Palestinians, including eight seeking aid, were killed during the 24 hours of US President Donald Trump’s talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 262 others were wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.

Medical professionals said they expect the actual death toll to be closer to 80, including five people killed in an attack on a tent housing displaced civilians.

Discussions between the two allied leaders at the White House on Monday included their plans to push besieged Palestinians into neighbouring countries under the guise of a ceasefire agreement.

The pair and their top advisers gathered in a private dinner as protesters rallied outside, waving banners reading: “Stop arming Israel” and “Say no to genocide.”

Many also called for Mr Netanyahu’s arrest, referring to the International Criminal Court’s warrant over his war crimes in Gaza.

During the meeting, Mr Netanyahu claimed that the US and Israel were working with other countries to offer Palestinians a “better future.”

Earlier this year, President Trump proposed to relocate Palestinians and redevelop Gaza as the “Riviera of the Middle East”—a plan widely condemned by human rights organisations as ethnic cleansing.

UN agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) spokeswoman Tamara al-Raifai warned that the forced displacement plan would amount to creating “the most overpopulated open-air prison in the world.”

The proposal would herd 2.3 million Palestinians into the “ruins of Rafah,” she said.

“There’s nothing humanitarian or humane about seeking to confine the first 600,000 – but then the entirety of the population in Gaza – into a space that’s highly affected by the Israeli forces,” Ms al-Rifai told Al Jazeera.

“It is not feasible given the level of destruction in Gaza, it is not feasible given the collapse of humanitarian action in Gaza. 

“The [Israeli] ‘mechanism’ is actually killing Gazans looking for food. We fear the worst may still come.”

Mr Netanyahu was also due to meet with US House Speaker Mike Johnson at Capitol Hill after the Morning Star went to print. 

Meanwhile, an Israeli women’s group’s report today accused Hamas of using sexual violence as a “tactical weapon of war” during the October 7 attack.

The Dinah Project claimed that victims were silenced by being killed, preventing investigators from gathering evidence.

A Hamas official did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though the group has previously denied such allegations.