The Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, took less than 24 hours to return to the White House, where on Monday he was entertained with a dinner by President Donald Trump. This Tuesday, both leaders were seen again for a conversation that, unlike that of the previous day, did not deal with, according to US administration sources, several issues, but focused on one: the high -fire agreement in Gaza that Trump put the past on the table and is in a hurry
On Monday, Netanyahu appeared at his appointment with a letter under the arm that, he said, had sent the only proposal received in Oslo in the last weeks in that regard: both the Pakistan government, in gratitude the role that Trump played in the dew American has been defending that he deserves.
The second appointment between Trump and Netanyahu was held behind closed doors for an hour, and did not transcend at the end of the day many details, although the confirmation that the vice president, JD Vance, was present at it. The Israeli prime minister arrived at the White House shortly after 4:40 p.m., local time, after spending the morning at the Capitol, the president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson.
While Netanyahu was in the Capitol, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s sent on the Middle East, explained during a cabinet meeting held at the White House the terms of the agreement proposed last week by Trump to achieve a high fire of 60 days that the brutal offensive in Gaza of the Israeli army, which has killed in 21 months at least 57,500 people Health of the Strip. Witfoff said he expected that truce to enter into force “at the end of the week.”
He also offered some details that had been unofficially dating in recent days. “Ten living hostages will be released, along with nine other dead,” Witkoff said. “We will meet, by order of the president, with all the families of the hostages to inform them, and we believe that this will lead to lasting peace.” Currently, there are 50 hostages in the hands of Hamas, of the 250 that the Palestinian group kidnapped during its surprise attack on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 people died. It is believed that about 20 of those hostages are still alive.
Netanyahu declared this Tuesday in the Capitol that Israel accepts the proposal of the mediators, including Egypt and Qatar, Emirate who sent a delegation to the White House. “It is a good offer. It coincides with the original idea of Steve Witkoff and we believe that we have approached her, and I hope we can achieve it,” he explained. “We still have to finish the work in Gaza, free all our hostages and eliminate and destroy the military and government capacity of Hamas,” Netanyahu said.
Campaign on social networks
During his view to Congress, he also promised to combat an orchestrated campaign, according to him, in social networks of “defamation and demonization” that he is doing, he said, Mella in the support of the Americans to Israel, especially among the Democrats. “We intend to fight it [esa supuesta campaña]because nothing defeats lies as the truth, and we will spread the truth. It is what we intend to do in the coming months and years, ”he warned.
It is not common for a foreign president to visit the president of the United States, as Netanyahu has done, three months in just over five months. Even less is that it is received at the White House twice on the same trip. The exceptionality of Israeli prime minister speaks with eloquence of the good harmony that he has with Trump, which he recently convinced himself to his military offensive against Iran. Washington attacked on June 21 three storage and enrichment facilities of uranium, two days before forcing the end of war between both old rivals, which lasted 12 days.
“Never, in the 77 years of Israel’s history, there has been a degree of coordination, cooperation and trust between the United States and Israel as the current one,” Netanyahu said Tuesday, who considered that this unprecedented rapport was due to “President Trump.”
