Trump to push a new peace plan in talks with Netanyahu

President Donald Trump will push a new peace plan to end the War of Israel-Gaza during the White House discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday.

Trump talked about the prospects of reaching an agreement, telling journalists on Friday: “I think we have an agreement”.

But Netanyahu said on Sunday “he has not yet been finalized”, while Hamas said they had not officially received the proposal.

According to disclosed copies of the plan published by the American and Israeli media, it stipulates the publication of all hostages within 48 hours of confirmation of the agreement. Once returned, Israel will release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners serving pain for life.

The members of Hamas who engage in peace will be offered amnesty and a safe passage from Gaza – and the group will have no future role in the territory. All the military structures of Hamas will be destroyed.

Israeli defense forces (FDI) will gradually withdraw from the band and Gaza will be governed by an interim transition government.

The plan seems to constitute a significant change in position of the Trump administration, which previously recommended the relocation of the Total Gaza population of $ 2.1 million and redeveloping Gaza in a “Riviera” belonging to the United States.

The last proposal encourages the Palestinians to stay in Gaza.

He also recognizes Palestinian aspirations by a future state and includes a future role in the territory of the Palestinian Authority (PA) once he has undertaken reforms.

These are previous red lines for Netanyahu. Last week, he reiterated to the General Assembly of the United Nations that he would not allow a Palestinian state and labeled the “corrupt to his heart”.

Even if the Israeli Prime Minister is convinced by Trump, he may find it difficult to convince the hardest elements of his coalition in power to accept it. Ultranationalists of this coalition hope to maintain control of Gaza and rebuild Jewish colonies there.

The far -right Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, wrote on Monday that his party would not compromise on a plan which mentioned a Palestinian state or which involved a role for the AP.

The ultra-nationalist Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir declared during the weekend that Netanyahu had “no mandate” to end the war without “a decisive defeat of Hamas”.

The opposition chief, Yair, Lapid, said that he had supported the conclusion of an agreement and told us officials that Netanyahu had a “safety net” for a hostage agreement and an end of war.

“He has a majority at the Knesset (Parliament) and a majority in the country, it is not necessary to be passionate about empty threats of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich,” he wrote on X.

Opinion surveys suggest that Netanyahu is undergoing increasing pressures from the Israeli public to end the war – as well as families of the 48 hostages remaining in Gaza, 20 of which are considered alive.

Trump would also be impatiently impatient with the Israeli chief, expressing discomfort in the face of Israel’s air strikes on American Qatar earlier this month, which was aimed at murdering Hamas leadership.

He also declared that he “would not allow” Israel to annex the West Bank occupied by Israeli, which had been mentioned by some in Israel as a possible response to the recent decision of the United Kingdom, France and other countries to recognize the state of Palestine.

During the United Nations General Assembly last week, Trump met leaders of the Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar, and Turkey, calling it its “most important meeting” of the time.

The American special envoy Steve Witkoff said the next day: “We hope and, I could say, even confident that in the coming days, we can announce a kind of breakthrough.”

During the weekend, Trump posted on social networks: “We have a real chance of grandeur in the Middle East. All are on board for something special, for the first time. We will do it !!!”

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 65,549 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Hamas in the territory.

In August, a body supported by the UN confirmed that the famine took place in Gaza City. Earlier this month, a United Nations commission of inquiry concluded that Israel had committed a genocide in Gaza – which Israel firmly rejects.