Sometimes a week ago, the Israelis gathered in the field of Tel Aviv’s hostage, and they were waving banners that thanked President Trump and his envoy in the Middle East for their role in helping to secure an initial ceasefire deal in Gaza and release some of the hostages.
Many of them were hoping that Mr. Trump would pass the powerful Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to negotiate the end of the war with Hamas and obtain the rest of the hostages when the two leaders met in Washington on Tuesday.
Instead, they woke up to the news of Mr. Trump’s fictional idea of removing the population of nearly two million Batters from the devastating pocket to make way for a shiny American -owned River.
Farm as well as Mr. Trump’s vision of Gaza-the Arab world may accurately rejected it and any forced removal of residents who violate international law-suddenly turned from attention away from the future of the ceasefire deal, which the week stage is scheduled to end in early March.
While Mr. Trump drew his great plans in Gaza, he did not put public pressure except on Mr. Netanyahu to move forward in the talks across Qatari and Egyptian brokers to transform the temporary ceasefire into a permanent endowment in hostilities. This left Israel with a wide berth on how to deal with the next Gaza.
The conversations, which were supposed to start this week, are now in the air. Mr. Netanyahu will leave Washington with the support of Mr. Trump for the extremist right -wing members of the Israeli government to: the collective migration of the Palestinians from Gaza.
This leaves the fate of the hostages who are still kept by Hamas, as the armed group assesses how to move forward and many Palestinians worried about whether the war may resume again.
“On the one hand, we are very grateful for what Trump is doing,” said Edit Omhal, who kidnapped his son, Alon Ol, 23, from a bomb shelter while trying to escape from the Hamas -led music festival. From October 7, 2023, which started the war.
Now, Ms. OHel said of Mr. Trump, “I do not understand the effects of what he says or how this son will come home.”
Mr. Netanyahu, in interview With the presence of Fox News late on Wednesday, Mr. Trump’s idea praised it as “wonderful”, saying it “must be followed”, and it sinks any talk about the details of how to move in the negotiations.
On Thursday morning, the Savior Defense Minister of Netanyahu, Israel Katz, issued a statement saying that he had ordered the Israeli army to prepare a plan to facilitate the exit “Any resident in Gaza interested in leaving anywhere in the world this agrees to accept them.”
The initial phase of the ceasefire deal entered January 19 and provides Hamas to launch 33 The hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians who were imprisoned in Israel. About 79 hostages remain in Gaza, at least 35 of them are supposed to be dead.
The talks were scheduled to start on Monday – 16 of the deal – in the second stage, which are supposed to lead to the rest of the living hostages who are released and enter into a permanent endowment of hostilities. This means the complete withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza.
The drafting was left about the transition to the second stage, on the other hand, because Israel and Hamas adhered to mutual requests.
Mr. Netanyahu pledged to continue the war until Hamas no longer controlled Gaza and resume fighting, if necessary. Hamas refuses to abandon control or disarmament.
In repeated statements in Washington, Mr. Netanyahu has put his three priorities for Gaza, with hostages in second place only.
He said: “In Gaza, Israel has three targets: the destruction of military capabilities and the rule in Hamas, and to secure the launch of all our hostages and to ensure that Gaza does not again pose a threat to Israel.”
Mr. Netanyahu can lose his grip on power, as he threatened the extreme right of his ruling alliance to resign if the war in Gaza ends with Hamas still controls there.
As of Thursday, the Israeli delegation to Doha, Qatar, did not start negotiations, according to Israeli officials, who were not allowed to discuss the sensitive issue publicly.
Mr. Trump also seemed less paid than in the past about the fate of the hostages and ending the war, saying it was not clear whether the ceasefire would keep it. But he talked about “going to the second stage” from the ceasefire and said he would like to take out all the hostages. He said: “If we do not do that, it will make us somewhat more violent,” and it may indicate our support for the resumption of the fighting.
In the Middle East, the analysts were not what Mr. Trump returns to Tktula’s conversion to the future of Gaza may mean the most urgent period.
“I think what he did is throwing the old chimney plate from the table and replaced it with monopoly,” said Kobe Michael, an expert in the Israeli -Palestinian conflict at the Institute of National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. “Not only changed the rules of the game, but the game itself,” he said.
Israel and Hamas are likely to purchase time-Hamas to rehabilitate itself and its forces after 15 months of the delicious war and Mr. Netanyahu to maintain its right-wing alliance together-and he may try to extend the first stage of the deal, allowing more hostages exchange against prison.
Mr. Michael said that the vision of Mr. Trump in Gaza without Ghazan could act as a great threat and pressure on Hamas to launch more hostages. On the contrary, he said it could cause enthusiasm to walk out of the deal completely.
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Zakaria Al -Qaeda, the Palestinian expert in national security, said that even a proposal to transport two million Ghazan is likely to hold the ceasefire negotiations by making Hamas more cautious and destabilizing the entire Arab world.
He said that the announcement of Mr. Trump was “the ideal recipe for employing more people in Hamas,” adding that “the new colonialism” of Mr. Trump gave Hamas “easy marketing tools.”
Many people believe that Mr. Trump’s vision of Gaza is not possible, but regardless of reality, Mr. Netanyahu did not come out without any sign of pressure on him by Mr. Trump, or any day of the day between them. His government is now sound.
An Israeli official informed the Israeli political correspondents in Washington after Netanyahu’s meeting that Trump is now clear to the partners of the coalition of Mr. Netanyahu to drop his right -wing government with Mr. Trump as a president who will be responsible and “historical” opportunities in the coming years.
Relatives of the hostages warn that they have no time.
“I live in daily fear,” said Alon Nimrodi, the father of Tamir Nimrodi, an Israeli soldier who is scheduled to be launched only in the second stage of the deal.
Mr. Nimrodi said that Mr. Trump’s vision of Gaza was not bad. “But this is not the time to talk about it,” he said. He said that Gaza’s plans should wait even to “after the hostages come out.”