Netanyahu and Trump talk hostages as Gaza war grinds on
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump focused on release hostages in Gaza, underlining the determination of Israeli leaders Hamas’s military and government capabilities “eliminating”.
Netanyahu, X, leaders in June, Israel’s attacks on Israel’s nuclear fields after an air war after the leaders of the “Great Victory we have achieved on Iran” results and possibilities, he said.
Netanyahu has been visiting the third US since Trump took office on January 20, and he said to journalists that the negotiators were definitely working on the ceasefire, although he did not think that Israel’s campaign in the Palestinian settlement was done before.
Trump met with Netanyahu on Tuesday to discuss the situation in Gaza, and the President shows that the President of the Middle East ambassador Israel and Hamas made an agreement on the cease -fire agreement after the 21 -month war.
A delegation from Qatar, which hosted indirect negotiations between Axios, Israel negotiators and Palestinian militant group Hamas, met with the senior White House officials before the arrival of Netanyahu on Tuesday.
The White House had no interpretation about the report.
Steve Witkoff, the ambassador of Trump’s special ambassador to the Middle East, said that the number of problems that prevented Israel and Hamas from reaching an agreement has fallen from four to one to one and that means optimism for the temporary cease -fire agreement until the end of the week.
Witkoff, a cabinet meeting, told reporters, the expected agreement will contain a 60 -day ceasefire by releasing the release of 10 live and nine died hostages.
Netanyahu met with Vice President JD Vance before visiting the US Capitol on Tuesday and will return to Congress on Wednesday to meet the US Senate leaders.
Netanyahu, after his meeting with the President of the House of Republican Representatives Mike Johnson, told reporters, “We must still finish the job in Gaza, release all our hostages, eliminate and destroy Hamas’s military and government skills.” He said.
According to the Israeli figures, the Gaza conflict began in October 2023 with a Hamas attack on Southern Israel.
About 50 hostages stay in Gaza and are believed to be 20 alive.
Israel’s retaliation war killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, as reported by the Ministry of Health of Gaza, and reduced most of Gaza as rubble.
Gaza officials said at least 40 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes.
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, the Southern City, said the dead contained 17 women and 10 children and killed 10 people from the same family.
Hamas ended the war before releasing the remaining hostages for a long time.
Israel insisted that all hostages would not accept to stop fighting until Hamas was dismantled.
The United Nations estimates that more than two million population of Gaza has been displaced, and experts say that about half a million people are at risk of hunger in May.
Trump strongly supported Netanyahu by criticizing prosecutors on a trial of corruption against the Israeli leader on the accusations of bribery, fraud and violation of confidence, rejected by Netanyahu.
Netanyahu praised Trump and said there was no closer coordination between the United States and Israel in the history of his country.
