Trump to push Netanyahu on Gaza peace plan at White House

US President Donald Trump volition big Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astatine the White House connected Monday for high-stakes talks aimed astatine pushing an elusive Gaza bid program implicit the line.

Trump says a woody to extremity the astir two-year warfare successful Gaza, escaped hostages held by Hamas and disarm the Palestinian militant radical is efficaciously done pursuing talks with Arab leaders past week.

He teased a imaginable breakthrough connected Sunday, saying connected his Truth Social network: “ALL ARE ON BOARD FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL, FIRST TIME EVER. WE WILL GET IT DONE!!!”

However, Netanyahu has fixed small crushed for optimism successful caller days.

He vowed successful a defiant UN code connected Friday to “finish the job” against Hamas, and promised to artifact a Palestinian authorities that cardinal Western nations precocious recognized.

The Israeli premier besides appears reluctant to halt a subject violative successful Gaza City from which hundreds of thousands of radical person been forced to fly successful caller weeks.

It volition beryllium Netanyahu’s 4th sojourn to the White House since Trump returned to powerfulness successful January, arsenic the US president struggles to extremity a struggle helium said helium could lick successful days.

Normally a staunch state of Netanyahu, Trump has shown caller signs of frustration.

He warned Netanyahu past week against annexing the West Bank, arsenic immoderate of the Israeli premier’s furniture members person urged, and besides opposed Israel’s caller onslaught connected Hamas members successful cardinal US state Qatar.

Families of Israeli hostages held successful Gaza urged Trump to uphold his projected Gaza ceasefire deal.

“We respectfully inquire you to basal steadfast against immoderate attempts to sabotage the woody you person brought forth,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum wrote successful an unfastened missive to the US president.

“The stakes are excessively precocious and our families person waited excessively agelong for immoderate interference to derail this progress.”

The result of the gathering was apt to beryllium connected however overmuch unit Trump was consenting to enactment connected Netanyahu to swallow a woody connected which some Israel and Hamas are inactive not sold, said Natan Sachs, elder chap astatine the Middle East Institute.

“Netanyahu has a wide penchant for continuing the warfare and defeating Hamas, but I don’t deliberation it’s intolerable for Trump to person him otherwise,” Sachs told AFP.

“It would request a batch of unit from Trump and a precise wide and sustained strategy.”

The 2 leaders volition code a associated quality league astatine 1:15 p.m. US eastbound clip (1715 GMT) connected Monday.

– ‘Finish the job’ –

Trump sounded progressively optimistic past week astir the prospects of a woody aft gathering Arab and Muslim-majority leaders connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

A reported 21-point, US-led woody has begun to instrumentality signifier successful caller days that would see the disarmament of Hamas, the merchandise of each hostages and a ceasefire.

Former British premier curate Tony Blair was floated successful immoderate media reports arsenic a imaginable person of a transitional authorization for Gaza nether the US proposals.

The assemblage known arsenic the “Gaza International Transitional Authority” would run with the enactment of the UN and Gulf nations earlier yet handing power to a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA).

Netanyahu, during his UN speech, firmly rejected the thought of the Ramallah-based PA having a relation successful governing Gaza, which it did until Hamas seized powerfulness successful 2007.

He expressed heavy skepticism connected Sunday that the PA could beryllium reformed.

“I deliberation that the credibility oregon the likelihood of… a reformed Palestinian Authority that changes wholly its stripes, that accepts a Jewish state, that teaches its children to clasp the coexistence and relationship with the Jewish state, alternatively than surviving their lives successful bid to annihilate it… well, bully luck,” helium told Fox News’ “The Sunday Briefing” program.

The warfare successful Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s grisly October 7, 2023, attack, which killed 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally from Israeli authoritative figures, successful the deadliest time successful the country’s history.

Israel’s violative has killed much than 66,005...