Trump urges Gaza truce deal as Israeli cabinet meets
US President Donald Trump made progress in the cease -fire talks during the 20 -month war in the Gaza Strip because Israel and Hamas were approaching an agreement.
A Israeli official, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s senior adviser Ron Dermer, was prepared to travel to the United States this week for negotiations about the ceasefire, and Netanyahu’nun plans to go there in the coming weeks, said the agreement could be a sign.
Netanyahu said he met with the security cabinet on Sunday evening.
“Make the agreement in Gaza. Take the hostages back !!!” Trump wrote on social media.
Trump said that there may be an agreement in the next week, increasing expectations for an agreement on Friday.
Trump repeatedly called Israel and Hamas to end the war.
At the beginning of this year, the ceasefire was reached as he started to work, but Israel continued the war in March after Hamas tried to enable him to accept new conditions in the following steps.
Some Palestinians watched the last ceasefire to be shattered and welcomed the possibility of a new ceasefire with skepticism.
“They have been promising us since the beginning of the war: release the hostages and stop the war.” He said.
“They did not stop the war.”
Trump also doubled his criticism of legal procedures against Netanyahu, alleged to be corruption, and called him a “political witch hunt”.
On Saturday evening, Trump said that the hearing intervened in the cease -fire talks and Netanyahu was in the process of negotiating an agreement with Hamas, including Hamas, “.
The negotiations between Israel and Hamas have repeatedly fell at the point of adherence to whether the war would end as part of any ceasefire agreement.
Hamas official Mahmoud Merdawi accused Netanyahu of stopping an agreement on an agreement, and on social media, the Israeli leader insisted on a temporary agreement that would release only 10 hostages.
About 50 hostages remain, less than half of them are believed to be alive.
Netanyahu spokesman Omer Dostri, Merdawi’s claim without addressing the “Hamas’ war is the only obstacle to end,” he said.
Netanyahu said during his visit to Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service on Sunday, said that the Israeli-Iran war and the next ceasefire opened many opportunities: “First of all, I will need to solve the Gaza problem and defeat Hamas, but I guess we will succeed in both tasks.”
Hamas said he was willing to release all hostages in exchange for the full withdrawal of Israeli troops and the end of the war in the Gaza Strip.
Israel rejects this proposal by saying that if Hamas surrenders, disarmed and exiled, it will accept the end of the war, which is rejected by the group.
The war in Enclave began with an attack on Southern Israel, led by Hamas, where militants killed 1200 people on October 7, 2023 and took about 250 hostages.
On Sunday, the Gaza Ministry of Health said that 88 people were killed by Israel’s fire in the last 24 hours and the war increased the wage among Palestinians to 56,500.
The Ministry, which operates under the government of Hamas, does not distinguish between militants and civilians, but says that more than half of the dead are women and children.
The war has destroyed most of the Gaza strip population, often several times, most of the urban landscape of the region, and has been dependent on the external aid that Israel has limited since the end of the last ceasefire.
