Netanyahu and Trump will meet in the White House in Washington. According to his special sentence Steve Witkoff, the US President had submitted a Middle East peace plan consisting of 21 points a few days ago. According to diplomatic circles, this includes permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages.
In addition, the withdrawal of the Israeli troops and a government model for the Gaza Strip without the participation of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas should also be part of the plan. British media reported that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair could play a central role in a transitional government of the Gaza Strip.
In his message to Truth, Trump added on Sunday that there was a “real chance of something great in the Middle East”. On Friday, Trump had already said with a view of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip: “I think we have a deal.” Shortly before, however, Netanyahu said in his speech to the UN Generalbatte that Israel would relentlessly continue the fight against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
On Sunday, Netanyahu told the US news broadcaster Fox News with a view to Trump’s peace plan: “I hope we can do it because we want to free our hostages.” At the same time, he confirmed the goal of Israel to “disarm Hamas, to demilitarize the Gaza Strip” and to enable “a new future for the residents of the Gaza Strip and Israelis”.
The Israeli head of government commented on a possible role of the Palestinian authority in the future government of the Gaza Strip with a view of a possible role of the Palestinian. He does not think that a “reformed” Palestinian authority is likely that “accepts a Jewish state and teaches its children to accept coexistence and friendship with the Jewish state instead of aligning their lives to destroy it”.
From the perspective of Eytan Gilboa, an expert in the US Israeli relationships at the bar-ilan university in the Israeli Ramat Gan, Netanyahu remains “no other choice” than to accept Trump’s peace plan. For the Israeli head of government, the USA and Trump are “almost the last remaining ally in the international community”.
In the meantime, a announced journey of the US ambassador in Israel, Mike Huckabee, was postponed to Egypt at short notice.
Federal Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul (CDU) expressed support for the US peace plan. It was a “very good, welcome and necessary initiative,” said the minister on Saturday at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. It should be welcomed that Trump “intensively joined these negotiations”.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military continued its soil offensive, which started in mid -September, in the city of Gaza. Hamas said on Sunday that, due to the Israeli attacks, it had “lost” contact with two of the hostages captured in the Gaza Strip for 48 hours. The life of the two is in “real danger”.
In Tel Aviv, thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday for the end of the war. Lishay Miran-Lavi, the wife of the Geisel Omi Miran, which is still captured in the Gaza Strip, addressed a direct appeal to Trump and demanded: “Use your influence on Prime Minister Netanyahu.”
In Berlin there was the largest pro-Palestinian rally to date on Saturday, in which tens of thousands of people demanded an end to the Gaza War and a change of course of the federal government to Israel.
The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by the major attack by Hamas and with it allied fighter on Israel on October 7, 2023. According to Israeli information, 1219 people were killed and 251 were dragged into the Gaza strip as hostages. There are still 47 hostages in the violence of Hamas, of which, according to the Israeli army, at least 25 are already dead.
Since the Hamas attack, Israel has been massively militarily in the Gaza Strip. According to un independent information from the Hamas Ministry of Health, more than 66,000 Palestinians have already been killed.
