Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he believed that his discussion with US President Donald Trump on Monday will help advanced in interviews on the release of the hostages and agreements on the ceasefires that Israel negotiators continued on Sunday.
Israeli negotiators participating in the ceasefire interviews have clear instructions to achieve an agreement on the ceasefire under the conditions Israel accepted, Netanyahu said on Sunday before entering the flight to Washington.
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“I believe that discussion with President Trump can certainly help these results,” he said, adding that he was determined to ensure the return of the hostages held in Gaza and remove the threat of Hamas to Israel.
It will be Netanyahu’s third visit to the White House because Trump returned to power almost six months ago.
It mounts the public pressure on Netanyah to ensure a permanent ceasefire and end the war in Gaza, a step against some of the hard members of its right -wing coalition. Others, including Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, expressed their support.
The Hamas Palestinian Group said on Friday that it responded to the proposal of a ceasefire -supported US in the US in a “positive spirit”, a few days after Trump said that Israel agreed “to the necessary conditions for completing” 60 -day ceasefire.
But in the sign of potential challenges still facing both parties, the Palestinian official of the militant group associated with Hamas said that concerns remained over humanitarian aids, the crossing of Rafah in southern Israel to Egypt and clarity over the magazine for Israeli offices of troops.
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Netanyahu’s office stated that in its statement that the changes that Hamas requested a ceasefire was not “acceptable to Israel”. However, his office said that the delegation would still fly to Qatar to “continue his efforts to ensure the return of our hostages on the basis of the proposal of Qatar to which Israel agreed”.
Netanyahu has repeatedly said that Hamas must be disarmed, a request that a militant group has so far refused to discuss.
Netanyahu said he believed that he and Trump would also build on the result of the 12 -day Air War with Iran last month and try to ensure that Tehran never has a nuclear weapon. He said that the recent development in the Middle East created the opportunity to expand the Peace Circle.
Hostage
On Saturday evening, the crowds gathered on the public square in Tel Aviv near the Headquarters of the Ministry of Defense to call for an agreement on a ceasefire and return of about 50 hostages that were still held in Gaza. Demonstrators waved Israeli flags, sang and carried posters with photos hostage.
The latest bloodshed in the decade of the old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was launched on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked South Israel, killed around 1200 people, and according to Israeli Tallies killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
The Ministry of Health Gaza says that the Israeli retaliation military attack on the enclave killed over 57,000 Palestinians. It also caused a hungry crisis, a displaced population, mostly in Gaza, and left the territory in the ruins.
About 20 remaining hostages are still considered alive. Most of the original hostages were liberated through diplomatic negotiations, although the Israeli army also gained some.
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