In a message posted on his social network, Truth, on Saturday night (morning of this Sunday in peninsular Spain), the president of the United States makes an unusual gesture to clothe the Prime Minister of Israel, his ally Benjamín Netanyahu: he demands that Israeli justice withdraw the three causes for corruption that follow against the president and threatens to cancel economic aid to the country if this does not happen.
“Release Bibi!” (Popular nickname nickname), Trump writes in capital letters, qualifying his “war hero” partner and underlining that it is essential to contain Iran in the region. Netanyahu has publicly thank you through the social network X (formerly Twitter). , he states in his message. Israeli media describe the gesture of the American president of “unprecedented” interference.
Netanyahu had to declare again before the judge tomorrow Monday, but finally he will not. The judges, who had rejected the request of the Prime Minister on Friday to postpone the statement, have reversed the afternoon of this Sunday and have delayed their view.
“How is it possible that Israel’s prime minister is forced to sit in court all day for nothing?” Asks the republican leader, convinced that this “mockery of justice” and these “out of control prosecutors” will interfere in the ongoing negotiations with Iran and Hamas. It is, he says, a “witch hunt” like the one he has suffered from some judges in the United States.
Netanyahu has been accused since 2019 of crimes of bribery, fraud and abuse of trust, for their alleged relations, to obtain personal and political benefit, with influential people who allegedly manipulated in their favor contained in the media. He denies the charges. The judicial case, which began in 2020 and includes three criminal cases, has undergone constant delays in the midst of the military offensive against Gaza.
On a twist to his threats, the US president drops that the multimillionaire annual help that Israel receives from his main ally, Washington, is in danger from these open processes against Netanyahu. These are about 3.8 billion dollars in military aid (about 3,250 million euros), according to newspaper estimates Haaretz. “We are not going to tolerate this,” he warns to understand where he could go.
It is the second statement of this type that the US President publishes in Truth in three days to press Israeli justice, although this Sunday is more forceful than last Thursday. “America spends billions of dollars a year, much more than any other country, to protect and support Israel,” he warns as part of his barrage. “We have just lived a great victory [contra Irán]With Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in command and this greatly tarnished our victory, ”he adds.
Trump describes the processes open against Netyahu as “political witch hunt”. Witch hunt, he adds, like the one he suffered. “It is terrible what Bibi Netanyahu is doing in Israel. He is a war hero and a prime minister who has worked with the US to achieve a,” says Trump. The president’s content and tone have been applauded by several of the government ministers led by Netanyahu and criticized by the parliamentary opposition.
Trump adds that “it is important to note that right now [Netanyahu] It is negotiating an agreement with Hamas that will include the recovery of hostages ”, alluding to half a hundred kidnapped (more than half, already given by dead) that are held in the strip since October 7, 2023, when some 1,200 people were killed on Israeli soil by Hamas and 250 were kidnapped.
For months there is an agreement at the table. Palestinian Islamists agree to return everyone, but in exchange for the end of Israeli attacks and the exit of the enclave troops, something that Netanyahu does not accept.
Forced displacements in Gaza
The Israel Army has ordered this Sunday in the north of the strip new forced mobilizations of the population, forcing it to leave the territory that the occupation troops consider combat zone. Those in a year and a half, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
In another message in Truth this Sunday, Trump claims “to reach an agreement in Gaza and recover the hostages.” Following the wake of the high the fire achieved by the US president between Israel and Iran, the other two intermediaries, Qatar and Egypt, seek with Washington to take advantage of inertia and. Hamas has offered it to it while maintaining its two essential demands, according to a statement.
On June 13 Netanyahu launched an offensive against Iran, the so -called 12 -day War, which theoretically ended on June 24. In some areas that offensive was seen as one to free themselves from the threats of justice, parliament, Gaza’s war and the street demonstrations that could endanger their continuity in office.
