Trump optimistic of Gaza ends the fire while hosting Netanyahu

US President Donald Trump said he believes that talks to end the Gaza war are “going very well” as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.

Trump also expressed confidence that Hamas is ready to end the 21-month conflict. “They want to meet and want to have this ceasefire,” he said in unexpected remarks to the White House reporters.

Both leaders were asked for potential plans to move the Palestinians, with Trump saying that there was cooperation from countries adjacent to Israel.

The meeting came after the last rounds of indirectly end the fire between Israel and Hamas in Qatar ended without a breakthrough, although negotiations were expected to continue this week.

In the remarks on Monday, Trump was asked by a journalist what was hindering the peace deal in Gaza and he said, “I don’t think there is a detention. I think things are going very well.”

In the meantime, Netanyahu said he was working with the United States to find countries that would “give the Palestinians a better future.”

Palestinian Presidency there is before The rejected plans for the relocation of the Palestinians, which he indicated would violate international law.

Netanyahu also seems to play prospects for complete Palestinian statehood, saying that Israel will always “maintain” security control over the Gaza Strip.

“Now people will say that this is not a complete condition, it is not a country. We are not interested,” Netanyahu said.

At the meeting, the Israeli Prime Minister also said he nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a long -standing target of the US president.

“He creates peace while talking, in one country, in one region after another,” Netanyahu said, until Trump sent a letter he sent to the Awards Committee.

Previously, Trump said he would be “very hard” with the Israeli prime minister to end the war and pointed out that we “will have a deal” this week.

Initially, the White House said it would not make the meeting between the two media leaders, with employees describing it as a private dinner, during which Trump would prioritize the pressure to end the war and the return of all the hostages.

Maintaining the meeting closed to journalists would be unusual for a president who likes to platform his position with foreign leaders in front of the World Press.

The US-backed proposal for the termination of fire is reported to see Hamas release 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 dead hostages in five stages during a 60-day truce.

Israel will be required to release an unknown number of Palestinian prisoners and withdraw from parts of Gaza, where it now controls about two -thirds of the territory.

The obstacles to the deal remain significant.

The main exceptional question concerns the aid, as Hamas insists on the termination of the work of the Gaza Humanities Foundation while the Israeli delegation refuses to discuss the issue, stating that they are not authorized to discuss it.

During his visit, Netanyahu met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Middle East of Trump Steve Vikof.

While Netanyahu’s armored limousine traveled to the White House, dozens of protesters gathered at the security gates, waving Palestinian flags and calling for calls for the prime minister’s prime minister’s arrest.

Netanyahu, along with his former Minister of Defense, Joab Gallant and Hamas Commander Mohammed Def, have been made by entities on an arrest warrant in November by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Netanyahu rejected the allegations by calling the order for anti -Semite, while the Trump administration imposed sanctions on four ICC judges about what he calls “unfounded actions aimed at America or our close ally, Israel.”

The last round of Gaza war negotiations began on Sunday in Doha, with representatives sitting in different rooms in the same building.

The second session was held on Monday and ended without breakthrough, said a Palestinian employee familiar with the negotiations, AFP told.

Witkoff had to join the conversations in Doha later this week in an attempt to end the fire on the line, as the GAZA conflict is approaching its 22nd month.

Speaking to the BBC, the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Hukabi declined to say whether Trump would give a written guarantee that the proposed 60-day termination of fire would be extended as long as the negotiations continue.

“I just don’t know,” Hukabi said.

This is one of Hamas’s key demands and a stumbling block in current negotiations.

Asked if he believed that Trump could reach a break with the Israeli leader, Hakabi said, “I am not a prophet. I cannot predict the future, so I will not try to tell you what will happen.”

Netanyahu has been visiting the White House for the third time since Trump returned to power nearly six months ago.

But leaders have been dating for the first time since the United States joined the Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and then mediated the fire between Israel and Iran.

There is a strong sense that the recent 12-day war has created more favorable circumstances to end the war in Gaza.

Vitcof said at dinner on Monday that the US meeting with Iran would be held next week or so. Trump also said he would like to cancel sanctions against the Islamic Republic at some point.

The President of the United States has expressed more and more concern about the Gaza conflict in recent weeks and believes there is a “good chance” of ending fire.

White House spokesman Carolyn Levitt said it was a “extremely priority” for Trump to end the war in Gaza and that he wanted Hamas to agree to the 60-day deal “currently”.