Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced late Thursday that a deal was signed between his team in Qatar and Hamas to end fighting inside the destroyed enclave after a reported pressure campaign by the incoming Donald Trump administration in the U.S… or was it a late win for U.S. President Joe Biden?
After some late snags, the long-anticipated Gaza ceasefire took hold on Sunday after Hamas’s return of three female Israeli hostages who were kidnapped during the 7 October 2023 raid that killed at least 1,200 and resulted in a 15-month punishment campaign inside the enclave that resulted in at least 46,000 deaths and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
There were two narratives that emerged last week after Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect at the time, posted on social media that his hard-nose negotiating team finally got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the genocide in Gaza.
President-elect Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy has reportedly applied new pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas and bring the 15-month-old genocide in Gaza to an end in exchange for the remaining hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is, once again, working to make any ceasefire deal in Gaza impossible by adding last-minute demands, according to a report in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
The U.S. is growing concerned about Turkey’s growing military presence in northern Syria, “raising alarm that Ankara is preparing for a large-scale incursion into territory held by American-backed Syrian Kurds,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the newly minted Time Person of the Year, gave an extensive interview to the magazine that was vague on top geopolitical issues, and when asked if he trusted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said he does not trust anyone.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will continue to hold on to the stolen Golan Heights, “cause it to blossom,” and fill it with Israeli settlers, drawing criticism from neighboring countries.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the people of Iran in a video last week and promised that they will soon be free and he has “no doubt” that they will “realize that future together.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was informed by his military and intelligence team that Israel was vulnerable to an enemy attack because of domestic social upheaval tied to his Knesset’s judicial overhaul plan that divided the country, a report last week said.