Tel Aviv, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would discuss “winning”, will compete with Iran and expand diplomatic relations with Arab countries in his meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Trump will be the first with a foreign leader since Tuesday’s meeting at the White House. It comes in the form of America and Arab media, which begins to broker the next stage of an agreement to air war in the Gaza Strip and leave dozens of hostages.
Hamas, who has re -established his control over Gaza since the ceasefire last month, has said that it is free to get rid of the hostages to be free in the second phase without the end of the war and the full return of the Israeli forces. Will not do
Netanyahu is under increasing pressure from far-flung governing partners to resume the war after the first phase ends in early March. He has said that Israel is still committed to victory over Hamas and attacked the withdrawal of all the hostages caught on October 7, 2023, attacking the war.
It is not clear where Trump stands.
He has been a staunch supporter of Israel, but has also promised to end wars in the Middle East and has taken credit for helping the ceasefire agreement to the broker. The deal has stopped the fight and released 18 hostages, which were held for more than 15 months, as well as hundreds of Palestinians were imprisoned by Israel.
According to Al-Awadh Hospital, an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in Central Gaza injured five people on Sunday, including a child, which was a number of casualties. The Israeli army said it fired on the vehicle as it was ignoring a post while going north in violation of the ceasefire agreement. The army said that it is committed to the deal.
Netanyahu called for Trump for ‘peace through peace’
In a statement issued before his departure on Sunday, Netanyahu said that he would discuss “Hamas winning, achieving the release of all our hostages and treating the Iranian terrorist axis in all his components,” Referring to the coalition of Iran, referring to the alliance of groups in the region. , Including Hamas.
He said that by working together, they can “strengthen safety, make the circle of peace wider and achieve a remarkable era of peace through strength.”
The war began when Hamas arrived in Southern Israel on October 7, 2023, with some 1,200 people killed, mostly citizens, and around 250 hostage. More than 100 hostages were freed during a week’s ceasefire in November 2023, eight have been rescued alive and dozens of bodies have been recovered by Israeli forces.
According to local health officials, the air and ground war of Israel has killed more than 47,000 Palestinians, more than half of them have left large parts of many cities in the ruins and about 90% of Gaza’s population about 90% of Gaza population The population of 2.3 million people has been displaced.
Under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, Hamas has to release a total of 33 hostages, of which eight Hamas is called, around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners have died in exchange for prisoners. The Israeli military has pulled back from most areas and allowed hundreds of Palestinians to return to the destroyed northern Gaza.
The second phase interaction, in which the war will end and the remaining 60 will be returned to the hostages, are ready to start from Monday. If the United States, Qatar and Egypt are unable to make an agreement between Israel and Hamas, the war may resume in early march.
A big deal aspirations
Trump’s Middle East Envoy, Steve Witcoff, joined the year -long ceasefire conversation in his last month and helped to carry forward the agreement on the Finnish line. He met Netanyahu in Israel last week and the two were expected to formally talk in the second phase in Washington on Monday.
Trump, who broke the generalization agreement between Israel and four billion countries in his first term, is believed to have been demanding a wide and potential historical agreement in which Israel will form relations with Saudi Arabia.
But the Kingdom, who opposed similar admissions from the Biden administration, has said that it would only agree to such a deal if the war ends and one for a Palestinian state in Gaza, West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem If there is a reliable route, the region is occupied by Israel in the Middle East War of 1967.
Netanyahu’s government is opposing the Palestinian state, and a prominent partner, far-flung Finance Minister Bezelle Smotrich has threatened to leave the governing alliance when the war did not resume next month. This will increase the possibility of initial elections in which Netanyahu can be voted.
Violence in West Bank
Even the Gaza ceasefire has been held for two weeks, with Israel operating in the West Bank occupied. On Sunday, the army said it was expanding an operation centered in Tamun city on the volatile city of Genin.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said a 73 -year -old man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in Genin in the early hours of Sunday. There was no immediate comment from the army.
The ministry first killed five killed, including 16 -year -old in the Israeli air strike overnight.
The army stated that it killed two fighters – one of whom was freed as part of the Gaza ceasefire for the week in November 2023 – in an air attack in a village near Jenin. It said that the two were planning an impending attack, and additional attacks targeted two other cells.
West Bank has seen an increase in violence since the war started in Gaza, in which Israel has launched daily military arrest raids. The violence that settled against Palestinians and Palestinian attacks on Israel has also increased.