US President Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House on September 29 local time.The Associated Press that when Trump will announce a new proposal on ending the war in Gaza.There are U.S. media reporters with senior U.S. officials as sources reporting that the U.S. is very close to agreeing on Trump's peace plan.
On April 7, U.S. President Trump welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House in Washington.
Trump: I hope to finalize the peace plan
Trump said in a Reuters telephone interview on Monday that he hoped to reach a peace deal with Netanyahu on the 29th, saying he had received “very good” responses from Israel and Arab leaders to the Gaza peace plan and that “everyone wanted to reach an agreement.”
Netanyahu said on the same day that Israel was working on a new ceasefire plan with the United States, and details are still being discussed.
"We're working on it," Netanyahu told an American Fox News program. "It (the ceasefire plan) is not finalized yet, but we are working with President Trump's team … I hope we can succeed."
Later on the 28th, Barak Ravid, a reporter from the US Axios news website, posted on social media that according to the information provided by a senior US official, the United States and Israel were very close to reaching an agreement on Trump's plan to end the Gaza war after the talks between the US special envoy for the Middle East Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared kushner and Netanyahu. However, this plan still needs the consent of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
This is a tent in which displaced Palestinians live in Gaza City, filmed on August 18.
Hamas: No new proposals have been received
Hamas said in a statement on Monday that talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip had been suspended since the Israeli attack on senior Hamas members in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on September 9.
The statement said that Hamas has not yet received any new proposals from the mediator.Hamas is willing to study the mediator’s proposals with an active and responsible attitude and a position of upholding national rights.
On the 23rd, Trump held a closed-door multilateral meeting with the leaders of Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, promising not to allow Israel to annex the West Bank, and submitting a document of the US on promoting the end of the war in Gaza and the post-war reconstruction plan.
The Trump 21-point Middle East peace plan includes the release of all Hamas detainees, a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israel's gradual withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, the establishment of a Gaza governance mechanism without Hamas after the conflict, and the stationing of "international security forces".
According to the Israeli newspaper, the above-mentioned plan proposed by Trump has been submitted to the mediator.The Israeli newspaper, citing informed sources, on the 27th that Hamas had in principle agreed to the plan.
On September 15, in Gaza City, people sat inside a building after an Israeli attack.
Hamas calls for suspension of air strikes
Despite the growing international condemnation, Israel continues to push forward its military operations in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu insisted that Hamas must drop its weapons, and Hamas has always said that the Palestinians will never give up their weapons as long as they are still fighting for a state.
The Hamas-affiliated armed faction, the Qassam Brigade, said in a statement on Monday that the Qassam Brigade had lost contact with two Israeli detainees due to Israeli military operations in the last 48 hours in two residential districts of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, and urged the Israeli army to halt its airstrikes on Gaza City-related areas and withdraw ground forces from there to find and transfer the two detainees.
The Israeli army has not responded directly to this yet, but has made it clear that it will not stop the offensive and continues to demand the evacuation of residents still in Gaza City.The Israeli army has previously said that it will hit Hamas targets located locally, “buildings will be devastated.”
The health department of the Gaza Strip said on the 28th that since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed more than 66,000 Palestinians and injured more than 168,000 others. (Reporter: He Mengshu, Huang Zemin, Zhao Weihong)