US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are set to meet in Florida later at present, at round 1 p.m. ET.
The pair are anticipated to talk about developments to a peace plan that was applied in October to finish Israel’s warfare in Gaza. While the first stage of the plan has been carried out, Trump is set to transfer to its much more sophisticated second part.
This subsequent part consists of the disarmament of Hamas, the start of reconstruction in the enclave, and the institution of post-war governance.
Some context to the go to: However, Israel is insisting that the stays of a last hostage are returned from Gaza earlier than the second part begins – although it additionally is aware of that Hamas may not be able to discover and return all of the remaining lifeless hostages, in accordance to three Israeli sources.
While Hamas has indicated that it could be prepared to talk about “freezing or storing” its weapons, it isn’t clear if this is able to meet Israel’s demand for the militant group to disarm below the ceasefire.
“Phase two is not frozen because of one point,” an Egyptian official advised NCS earlier this month. “It is frozen because every step affects Gaza’s future, and the parties are not yet willing to pay the political cost of making a final decision.”
Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Oren Liebermann and Ami Kaufman contributed to this reporting.