Vice President JD Vance also speaks to the media on Tuesday as President Trump’s negotiating team is in Israel, trying He is mowing down a weak fire in Gaza. Mr.
Before leaving Israel, said bumps in The Road to Peace it was expected.
“There will be a right and a start,” Vance told reporters. “Hamas will put out the fire in Israel, and Israel must respond, of course.”
Hamas has denied responsibility for an RPG attack that allegedly killed two Israeli soldiers over the weekend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that it was an attack by Hamas, and that the Israeli forces responded by violating the ceasefire by dropping 169 tons on Gaza.
“One of our hands holds a weapon, the other hand is for peace,” Netanyahu told lawmakers on Monday. “He makes peace with the strong, not the weak. Today Israel is stronger than ever.”
The Israeli strikes killed at least 45 Palestinians, according to health officials in the field released from Hamas.
President Trump warned Hamas on Monday of breaking the deal and months of negotiations.
“They’re going to be great,” she said. “And if not, we will go and remove them if we have to.”
Kushner and Witkoff Met Monday with Netanyahu, and the office of the Israeli leader said that Vance will meet with him this week. Vice President and Lay Lady Hand Uha Phence were greeted on their Tuesday by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Israel Ambassador to the US Yechiele Levin.
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Vance was scheduled to have a working lunch with Witkoff and Kushner on Tuesday before his meeting with Tetanyahu.
The peace process took further steps forward despite the violence over the weekend, with Israel returning the remains of 15 Palestinians from Gaza on Tuesday after Monday evening. As part of the Peace Agreement, a total of 165 bodies have now been returned to Gaza, most of them former, while all living Israeli leaders have been removed by Hamas, and Remains of 13 tailors.
But despite those steps, the long-term effectiveness of Mr Trump’s Peace Plan, which he says will end nearly eight decades of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, remains elusive.
Ex-Israeli Official Doubts Hopes of Trump’s Peace Plan
Some Israelis remain skeptical that the Israeli Prime Minister has a sincere desire for lasting peace. Among them is a fierce critic of Netanyahu acon pickAs, who worked as an adviser to four Israeli teachers in Israel.
He told CBB News that Netanyahu signed the peace agreement has been addressed by Mr. Trump, but he has never used its main purpose, or Mr. Trump’s goal of keeping peace in the heart of the Middle East.
“This was a bargain,” Pinkas said. “This is the deal he signed under Douress, and now he’s developing a new plan to use Trump.”
Pinkas gave Mr. Trump by doing “The thing that preceded those before him did it for himself or he did not hesitate to do it, and that is really stressful for “the leader of Israel.
“It worked, but it only worked in the first phase,” Pinkas said, referring to the surviving Israeli hostages who were released and destroyed by fire.
He said after the violence of the weekend that the agreement “was restored, but when Netanyahu said, ‘I restore the ceasefire,’ it is because there is a visit here from the Vice President Rebel, Jed Vance, and because the US sent its envoy. “
Cinkas said that some Israeli forces will continue to operate in Gaza within days, noting that they remain in a certain part of the Palestinian territory.
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“The hostages are no longer a danger because they were released, and Hamas was not badly destroyed, as Mr. Netanyahu promised and boasted for two years, so I see AMASANANAHU, “Maybe not on a large scale, given the agreement, but I see … A local skirmish that becomes a wide flare-up, that ruins or increases in the full military operation of Israel.”
Hamas’ Top Negotiator said on Tuesday that the group remained committed to the ceasefire agreement. But President Trump’s peace plan calls for the dismantling of Gaza, and many analysts, including Pinkas, are skeptical that Hamas will give up all its weapons.
“It’s probably a big mistake in the deal,” Pinkas said. “The agreement in itself is a good agreement, but in order for us to agree to work, it requires good faith, good will, and be honest. None of these ingredients are present.”
“Hamas wants to lure Israel in [Gaza] in the de-facto operation, and put an end to the insurgency and show the Palestinians that they are the real resistance. And Netanyahu wants to go in because he knows that if everything stops now and moves forward to the next stages, it probably means that he will be considered as someone who fails to defeat Hamas. “
Pinkas says that while two years of war have left Hamas legally defeated, “Hamas is not done. You see yourself on CBS – you see CBS around the war on Netanyahu.”
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Speaking of recent Interview with CBS News’ Tony DoKoupilNetanyahu said his government had agreed to “give peace a chance,” but noted that the conditions for Mr. There is no arms smuggling in Gaza. “
“We also agreed: OK, let’s get the first part done. Now let’s give the opportunity to do the second part peacefully, which is my hope,” said the Israeli leader.
