Israel’s Netanyahu travels to our visit to discuss Gaza ceasefire with Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the way to the United States, who agreed with the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza to discuss the second phase of the ceasefire, saying his office.
Netanyahu’s office is scheduled to begin talks for the second phase of the ceasefire at Washington, DC on Sunday, leaving the Israeli leaders on Sunday for the US.
US President Donald Trump, who claimed a credit for the ceasefire deal signed on January 19, is expected to host Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday – Trump’s inauguration for a second term with a foreign leader for the first time. Since then.
Netanyahu’s American visit comes two weeks in the first phase of the ceasefire, which is ready to free 33 Israeli prisoners in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. The second phase is expected to cover the release of the remaining prisoners and include discussion on the more permanent end of the war.
According to local health officials, the Gaza ceasefire stopped 15 months of an Israeli massacre, killing more than 47,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children.
Speaking at Tel Aviv Airport before his departure, Netanyahu said that he and Trump would discuss “win over Hamas, achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terror axis”.
Netanyahu called it “tell” that he would be the first foreign leader to meet Trump since his inauguration. “I think this is a testimony to the strength of the Israel-American coalition,” he said.
Netanyahu is also the first American visit of Netanyahu since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza Strip.
The US, which had previously praised the ICC’s decision to issue a warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin in connection with the Ukraine War, is not a signator for the Rome law, which the treaty was established in the Rome.
Senior American politicians are trying to approve the International Court of Arrest on the arrest warrant of Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yov Galant, and have threatened to blacklist their top prosecutors and their families.
Delicate ceasefire
The ceasefire is yet to be seen to carry out Trump and Netanyahu. Netanyahu is under immense pressure from his far-flung government partners to release the deal after the first phase and resume attacks on Gaza.
Trump, for its share, has given mixed indications on the possibility of a permanent end for war. When asked on January 20, shortly after taking the oath, if he believed that the Trus was caught in Gaza, he said: “I don’t believe.”
“This is not our war, this is their war,” he said.
Recently, Trump has also proposed ethnic “Clean Out” to Gaza, Arab states, emphasizing Egypt and Jordan, should take the Palestinians displaced from the enclave, a possibility that they rejected the goal -col. Was.
Scott Lucas, a professor of international politics at University College Dublin, told Al Jazira that the second phase of Gaza Deal faces pressure from several sides. He said that Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will still be released only when the second phase of Gaza ceasefire can live in the place.
“Here, you are talking about the four sides of pressure around Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump,” he said.
Israel is under pressure for difficult rights, especially Finance Minister Bezelle Smotrich from inside the cabinet and former National Security Minister Itmar Ben-Gawir, he said.
“They don’t want a phase two. They want a military government in Gaza, they want the displacement of Palestinians, and they are really talking about returning to war.”
Then there is pressure of such elements in Israel that think that their priority should return to all prisoners.
On the other hand, Lucas said, “Hamas will continue to oppose Israel’s efforts to eliminate the group from Gaza, and Palestinians are rejecting military occupation.
“The fourth is Donald Trump, who wants to become a peacemaker, but to the extent that Israeli is also a supporter that its solution to bring peace is to send all Gaza residents to Egypt and Jordan. Therefore, there is no way to square those four sides to get one step two at this point. ,
Waste bank settlements captured
Apart from this, during the visit of Netanyahu, there may be illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank occupied in the agenda.
Israel’s remote Finance Minister Bezelle Smotrich, who oppose the ceasefire and is a vocal disposal advocate, urged Netanyahu to extend the issue.
“We should strengthen our grip and sovereignty on the motherland in Judea and Samaria,” Smotrich said in a message directed in Netanyahu, which refers to the West Bank.
Netanyahu’s initial meeting with Trump made a clear departure from his relations with the previous US administration, despite being Israel’s largest arms supplier, criticized his war conduct and stopped some military shipments.
Trump has declared himself the most Israel President in American history and has appointed senior diplomats who openly support remote Israel factions, including his push to anxize the occupied West Bank Is.
