The US president, Donald Trump, and Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, plan to meet tomorrow Monday at the White House. The meeting will be marked by the possibility of achieve a high provisional fire between Jerusalem and Hamas, which also depends on the march of this Sunday’s negotiations in Doha (Qatar).
Washington has been the one who has mediated between the two parties and who has presented the offer, which the Netanyahu government has already accepted and that The Palestinian Islamist group seems to have received a positive way.
Hamas has been open to negotiate the agreement, which has asked to make some amendments that the Israeli government crossed out “unacceptable” despite remains willing to dialogue. These amendments would be the center of the conversations that the Israeli and Hamas delegation have held this Sunday through the mediators (Egypt, Qatar and the United States).
Within the framework of the negotiations, Trump wanted to take advantage of the impulse generated by the recent truce between Israel and Iran to reach a similar agreement in Gaza and has said that He would like to see an agreement signed this week.
The document on which it is negotiated in Doha, and to which EFE has had access, establishes the release of hostages retained by Hamas, release of Palestinian prisoners by Israel or the opening of land steps for the entry of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
About twenty live hostages
Currently, 50 hostages remain in Gaza, of which it is estimated that around twenty are still alive. Likewise, according to the text, the Israeli troops would gradually withdraw from the north and south of the strip to “specific places” that have not yet been determined, just as it has not been the schedule of this withdrawal and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
The 60 -day truce proposed by the United States should serve as a framework to negotiate the terms of a definitive purpose of the conflict.
According to the proposal, it will be the US president, Donald Trump, who personally supervises the implementation of the agreement, while the US envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoffwill lead the negotiations on the ground.
If the negotiations fail within 60 days, the high temporary fire could extend, the text also establishes.
Two previous truces
From the beginning of the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian enclave, There have been two truces: The first, in November 2023, which lasted just a week, while the second, started on January 19, concluded on March 18, when Israel resumed the bombings.
For the Netanyahu government, the end of the war goes through the exit of Hamas from power and dismantling of its military arm, while the Islamist group demands the total withdrawal of the Israeli troops of the enclave.
The Israeli offensive on Gaza began after Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, which left 1,200 dead in Israel and 251 kidnapped, and since then more than 57,000 people have died in Gaza, in which numerous international actors qualify as genocide.
The meeting between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu this Monday at the White House constitutes Sor third encounter since the Republican returned to power in January and evidences the close personal and political relationship between them.
Netanyahu was, in February, the first foreign president received by Trump in the White House, a meeting in which the Republican president unleashed the controversy by proposing that The United States assumed control of the Gaza Strip to expel its inhabitants and develop a real estate project there.
The second meeting was held in April, shortly after Trump announced tariffs for much of the world, including Israel, and on that occasion the Republican announced the beginning of negotiations with Iran for a new nuclear agreement, conversations that were frustrated two months later by the Israeli attacks against the Islamic Republic.
