Gaza, Israel and Donald Trump
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An official with the Board of Peace, the body Trump established to oversee the fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, said Kushner, board high representative Nickolay Mladenov, and executive board member and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would arrive in Israel on Sunday.
Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a domestic battle for survival in elections later this year, also reaffirmed that “as long as I am prime minister, there will be no Palestinian state.”
Netanyahu made a rare public break with Trump after months of fractious relations behind the scenes.
Netanyahu's comments come just over a week after President Trump said his Board of Peace had reached a "historic" agreement with Hamas to give up its weapons.
On the face of it, US President Donald Trump’s announcement that Hamas, and all other armed groups in Gaza, have agreed to disarm seems historic.
President Trump is confronting multiple problems nearly nine months into his effort to transform the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered the latest blow when he
The Israeli Prime Minister said Israel did not accept the Board of Peace’s roadmap to disarm Hamas.
Netanyahu warned the IDF “will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed" and said it "will continue to thwart threats" against Israel.
Iran has set a high price for President Trump to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, while Israel's PM has rejected his Gaza plan.