Donald Trump said on Friday, July 4 that “it could be an agreement on Gaza next week”, before a visit to the White House scheduled for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.
To the question of a journalist aboard Air Force One who asked him if he was optimistic about a high fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, the US president replied “very”, but added “changes day by day.”
In response to the information according to which Hamas had responded positively to the negotiation proposals for a high fire, he said: “It’s good. They didn’t inform me. We have to finish it. We have to do something for Gaza.”
Third meeting between Trump and Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu will be received by Donald Trump in the White House on Monday, a decisive meeting for the future of the Palestinian territory and where Iran will also be a question. It will be, in a completely unusual way, of the third meeting in Washington in six months between the Israeli prime minister and the US president who have a close relationship.
This face to face occurs two weeks after the United States joined the Israeli military offensive against Iran, with the bombing of Washington three nuclear sites and obtaining shortly after a war between the two enemy countries. The resolution of this 12 -day war has revived the hopes of stopping the Gaza Strip, where humanitarian conditions are catastrophic for a population of more than two million people.
Donald Trump, who said this week that it would be “very firm” with Netanyahu, demands a high 60 -day fire in the Gaza Strip, tired of a war that never ends. “Especially I want the inhabitants of Gaza to be safe. They experienced hell,” he said Thursday, when he was asked if he still wanted the United States to take control of the Palestinian territory, as announced in February.
Hamas, ready to “immediately” negotiate “negotiations
A new proposal for a negotiated truce after the arrival at Washington Minister of Washington, Ron Dermer, was presented to the Palestinian Islamist movement to Qatarar and Egyptian mediators. Donald Trump summoned Hamas to accept this proposal of high “definitive” fire after 21 months of a devastating war in the Gaza Strip, caused in retaliation by the attack against Hamas on the Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
He said he was ready to “immediately start” negotiations, supported by his ally the Islamic Jihad. According to a Palestinian source, the truce is accompanied by the release of half of the hostages still alive held by Hamas, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
“I think we are going to attend a strategic meeting as a great negotiation as Trump loves,” Michael Horowitz, an independent geopolitical analyst, told AFP.
According to him, “even Mr. Netanyahu is aware that we are reaching the end of what can be done in Gaza, and that it is time to plan an excursion. Netanyahu surely wants it gradual.” The Israeli leader is under pressure within his coalition government and will want to delay, while supplying that “a gradual exit of the war is in parallel with an effort of standardization with regional partners such as Saudi Arabia,” explains the expert.
“Nothing to offer” to Iran
In 2020, Abraham’s agreements, sponsored by Donald Trump during his first term, led to the normalization of relations between several Arab countries, including Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. But so far many Arab countries have refused to join this process, in particular Saudi Arabia, provided that the war in Gaza continues and there is no defined career for a Palestinian state, which the Israeli government categorically rejects.
In the Iranian nuclear archive, Donald Trump said last Monday that he had “nothing to offer” to Iran, who “does not speak.” And the US president, with strikes on the night from June 21 to 22, who, according to him, “destroyed” the Iranian nuclear program, warned that he would not hesitate to bomb the country again if he tried to acquire the atomic weapon.
Relationships between Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump have not always been easy. During his previous interview, in April, Donald Trump had surprised Netanyahu when he announced direct negotiations with Iran. But “Bibi”, the nickname given to Benjamin Netanyahu, was the first foreign leader invited to Donald Trump’s second mandate. And his alliance against Iran seems to have sealed the meeting.
The US president said he saw in the Israeli leader “a great hero”, leaving the legal corruption procedures addressed to his country.
Source: BFM TV
