Netanyahu confirmed his Nobel Prize proposal by presenting Trump a letter that he had said to have sent his own information to the Nobel Prize Committee. Over the years, the US President had been proposed several times by supporters and deputies for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump makes no secret of how much it annoys him that he has not yet received the price – for his mediator role in conflicts between India and Pakistan or Serbia and Kosovo or for his commitment to the Abraham Agreement, through which several Arab states have normalized their relationships with Israel in his first term.
The meeting between Trump and Netanyahu in the White House should primarily be about the recently reinforced efforts about a ceasefire in the Gaza war between Israel and the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas.
Trump confidently commented on Monday evening that Hamas was ready for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. “You want a meeting and you want these ceasefire,” he said at the beginning of the meal with Netanyahu to journalists. “I don’t think there is a blockade. I think that things are very good,” said Trump when asked what was preventing.
On the table is a proposal by the international broker for a 60-day break. Trump had “very optimistic” on Friday that an agreement would come about. On Sunday he said there were “good chances” to reach an agreement this week. At the weekend, an Israeli negotiation team had traveled to Katar for indirect conversations with Hamas.
Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the US specialist Steve Witkoff would travel to Doha during the week.
Trump has made the end of the war on the Gaza Strip that has been going on since October 2023, and Netanyahu has declared the destruction of Hamas to the goal of Israeli strategy.
It has already been Netanyahu’s third visit to the White House since Trump took office in January.
Meanwhile, Israel’s army announced the death of five Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Two of the soldiers fell in the fight in the north of the Palestinian area, it said in a explanation. In the same incident, three other soldiers were killed and two soldiers were seriously injured. The injured were taken to the hospital and their families were notified, the army continued to say.
