Rubio says Trump is not satisfied ‘

Rubio told journalists on Saturday before leaving for Israel that President Donald Trump had remained unhappy with the Israeli strike, but that she would not shake American support for Israel.

“We are going to talk about what the future has in store for us, and I will understand what their plans are progressing,” said Rubio. “Obviously, we are not satisfied. The president was not happy with it. We must now go ahead and understand what comes next.”

Rubio and Trump met the Prime Minister of Qatar on Friday to discuss the impact of the Israeli operation, in a demonstration of the way the Trump administration tries to balance the relations between the keys to the Middle East allies a few days after Israel targeted Hamas leaders in a strike on Doha.

The attack aroused a general condemnation and seems to have ended attempts to obtain a cease-fire from Israel-Hamas and the release of hostages before the next session of the United Nations General Assembly during which the Gaza War should be a main objective.

Trump “wants Hamas to be defeated, he wants war to end, he wants the 48 hostages to be at home, including those who died, and he wants at the same time,” he said. “And we will have to discuss how last week’s events have had an impact on the ability to achieve it in a short time.”

Rubio will have meetings in Jerusalem on Sunday and Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others.

Despite the tensions between Trump and Netanyahu during the strike, Rubio will be in Israel for the two -day visit. This is a demonstration of support for the country increasingly isolated before the United Nations probably holds a controversial debate on the creation of a Palestinian state, to which Netanyahu opposes.

Friday, Rubio and Vice-President JD Vance met the Prime Ministers of Qatari Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the White House. Later Friday, Trump and special envoy Steve Witkoff dinner with the sheikh in New York, where Trump went to commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Trump administration offers a delicate line between two main allies after Israel took its fight with Hamas in the Qatari capital, where the leaders of the militant group had gathered to consider an American cease-fire proposal in the almost two year war in Gaza. Qatar is a key mediator, and although its leaders have sworn to move forward, the next steps are not sure of a long -sought -after agreement to stop the fighting and release the hostages taken in Israel.

Condemn the strike but support Israel

The attack on Israel on Trump’s hopes on Tuesday on Tuesday also broke a broader peace agreement from the Middle East, the leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are all angry.

Trump himself moved away from the strike, saying that he “does not advance the objectives of Israel or America” ​​and promised in Qatar that it would not be repeated. The United States also joined a press release from the UN Security Council sentenced the strike without mentioning Israel by name.

In Israel, Rubio plans to visit the city of David, a popular archaeological site and a tourist destination built by Israel in the Palestinian district of Silwan in disputed East Jerusalem.

It contains some of the oldest remains in the 3,000 -year -old city. But criticism accuse the operators of the site of having pushed a nationalist program to the detriment of Palestinian residents.

Israel captured Jerusalem-Est, which houses the most important religious sites in the city, in the war in the Middle East of 1967 and annexed the region.

Israel claims the whole city like its eternal and undivided capital while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, including the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Competing statements are at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and frequently transform into violence.

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