Location at a glance: String around Gaza Deal – Trump and Netanyahu spoke again

The efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza war are in full swing. US President Donald Trump met for the second time within two days in the White House with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting, which US Vice President JD Vance also took, took 90 minutes, reported American and Israeli media. Nothing was officially announced on the content of the conversation. Trump and Netanyahu had already met for dinner the day before.

Trump had said before his renewed conversation with Netanyahu: “He wants a solution, I want a solution and I think the other side wants a solution.” Before her unexpectedly meeting, a delegation from Qatar in the White House had arrived in the White House, according to information on the US news page “Axios” and spoke to senior representatives of the White House for several hours. Katar acts together with the USA and Egypt as an intermediary between Israel and Islamist Hamas.

Netanyahu sticks to war goals

Trump’s Middle East special representative Steve Witkoff said in Washington: “We hope that we will have an agreement by the end of the week that will bring a 60-day ceasefire.” However, the “Times of Israel” quoted an Arab media report at night, according to which another round of ongoing placement talks in Katar’s capital Doha went without great progress. According to the “Times of Israel”, Witkoff postponed his departure to Doha. This is a sign that a deal is not yet ripe.

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized in Washington that Israel still had to finish his job in Gaza. Israel is determined to “achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza: to free all of our hostages, to destroy Hamas’ military and state skills and to ensure that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel”. The Gaza Strip must have “another future”. “There will be no Hamas. It has to be understood,” Netanyahu confirmed.

Reports: Israel’s troop retreat further sticking point

The United States is more optimistic than the Egyptian and Qatarian mediators, as it was the chances that a ceasefire in Gaza and an release of the hostages can be agreed this week, the “Times of Israel” learned from four sources that are familiar with the indirect negotiations. Most of the questions have been clarified, however, it was said, citing an Israeli official after Netanyahu’s first meeting with Trump.

The still unresolved point of contention concerns the partial withdrawal of the Israeli forces during the ceasefire, reported “Axios” and the “Times of Israel”. During the placement talks, cards were discussed with drawn troops. Hamas demands that the Israeli armed forces withdraw to the same lines as before the previous ceasefire in March failed. Israel rejects this.

Today Israel will present a new series of cards on which the proposed troop laying was shown after the previous version was rejected by Hamas, the “Times of Israel” reported, citing a source familiar with the negotiations. A compromise on this question will take some time.

Report: agreement on aid deliveries

A problem that could be solved, the delivery of humanitarian aid is to Gaza, quoted “Axios” two informed sources. It was therefore agreed that the help in Gaza’s areas from which Israel’s army is withdrawn will be delivered by UN or other international aid organizations. This means that the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) Foundation supported by the USA and Israel cannot expand their activities in Gaza and may even have to go back.

After a US guarantee that Israel cannot rescue the war on one side after the 60-day ceasefire, Israel was not resigned, “Axios” reported. According to this, the US envoy Witkoff sent a message to Hamas via a Palestinian-American businessman that US President Trump was determined to extend the ceasefire if negotiations on the end of the war take longer than 60 days.

Netanyahu: Peace through strength

Trump and he believed “in a doctrine who calls himself” peace through strength “. First comes the strength, then peace comes, “said Netanyahu in the US capitol to journalists. The” determined decision by President Trump, together with us against those who want to destroy Israel and threaten the world peace, has led to a remarkable change in the Middle East, “said Netanyahu. He referred to the twelve-day war with Iran had recently placed in a ceasefire.

In the course of the war, Israel and the United States bombed central facilities of the Iranian nuclear program. “There are opportunities for peace that we want to use. We are working together,” said Netanyahu.

Report: USA strive for agreements between Syria and Israel

According to an Israeli media report, Trump and his advisors also strive for an agreement with Israel’s neighboring country Syria. The United States hoped to make a breakthrough during the visit to Netanyahu, the newspaper “Israel Hajom” had reported circles from the area around the White House. Accordingly, Trump assumes that a Netanyahu agreement can help to loosen his position in the Gaza negotiations.

Israel and Syria have been in the state of war since 1948. Most recently, it was said from informed Syrian circles that Israel and Syria have direct discussions about limited security agreements and a possible withdrawal of Israeli troops from areas in southern Syria.

Netanyahu had once again indicated at his dinner with Trump that there was currently an opportunity to conclude agreements for the normalization of relationships with other Arab countries. The US President had launched the so-called Abraham Agreement on the normalization of relationships between Israel and several Arab countries during his first term-a historical breakthrough at that time.