Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamín Netanyahu landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv after spending more than a week in the United States, where he met with the president of that country, Donald Trumpand other authorities to address the relationship between the two countries and the situation in the Middle East.
Upon arrival, Netanyahu convened a governing cabinet meeting, as well as another of security (in charge of managing the course of the war and that combines competent ministers in the matter) for tomorrow, confirmed an Israeli official.
The visit to the United States earned him Netanyahu a reaffirmation of support to Israel of Donald Trumpwho after the meeting between the two in the White House raised his intention to control the Gaza Strip after the war to turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East ”.
In addition, the tycoon was favorable to a “voluntary” exit plan of the Palestinians to neighboring countries such as Egypt or Jordan, that the US president presented as a humanitarian measure, since Gaza had remained after the war as a “demolition zone ”, According to the president of the US.
Netanyahu said that it was a “historical visit”: “There are opportunities for possibilities here that I think we would never have dreamed, or that until a few months ago they seemed not to be possible, but they are possible.”
According to the Prime Minister, these achievements have to do with “the key issues” that Israel faces, although it did not give more details about it.
However, The president did specify to have discussed with Trump a “revolutionary” and “creative” vision about the future management of Gaza after the war, which excludes the group so much Islamist Hamás as to the Palestine National Authority, which governs in reduced areas of the West Bank due to Israeli occupation.
“We agree that the objectives of the war should be completed: eliminating Hamas, recovering the hostages, ensuring that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel, returning to the residents of the south and north (those displaced after the attack of October 7 of 2023 and those of fire exchanges with Hezbollah from Lebanon) and of course prevent I will get nuclear weapons. ”
In the light of Trump’s approval, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Army to prepare a plan to allow the free exit of civilians who intend to leave Gaza.
Netanyahu’s statements arrive when indirect conversations between Israel and Hamas, which are done through mediators (United States, Qatar and Egypt) about the second phase of the high on fire (in which the soldier Israeli men will be released of 19 and children under 50) should have begun sixteen days after the entry into force of the first agreement, that is, on February 3, although so far they have not begun.
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The Arab League announces emergency meeting
Egypt announced that it will receive an extraordinary summit of heads of state of the Arab League, composed of 22 members, on February 27, on the “serious novelties of the Palestinian cause.”
In a statement, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign the celebration of the summit ”.
The announcement of that meeting is produced in increasing tension and rejection by the members of the Arab League of the proposal of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, of expelling the Gazatis with Egypt and Jordan.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan reiterated their rejection of that proposal, while the Islamic Cooperation Organization – integrated by 57 states – called “ethnic cleaning.”
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