The visit comes when the United States puts pressure on Israel and Hamas to continue ceasing the fire, which stopped the devastating 15-month war in Gaza. Talks about the second phase of fire termination should begin on February 3.
D -H Trump annoyed the upcoming visit with a conversation with reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday, but did not provide details.
“I’ll talk to Bibi Netanyahu in the not too distant future,” he said.
The meeting would be a chance for G -n -Netanyahu, under pressure at home, to remind the world of the support he has received from G -N Trump over the years.
Netanyahu is likely to encourage d -Trump not to hold some supplies of weapons the way the Biden administration has done.
The administration continued other supplies and the overall military support of Israel, which is the largest recipient of US military assistance.
Netanyahu also relies on G -N Trump to exert more pressure on Iran and renew his efforts to achieve a historical agreement to normalize Israel and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s rival and the most powerful country in The Arab world.
Even before he went to office this month, D -H Trump was sending his special envoy to the Middle East Steve Vikof in the region to put pressure, along with the Biden administration, to reach the current termination of fire.
But the Netanyahu sworn to renew the war if Hamas did not respond to his demands in the negotiations for the second phase of the cessation of the fire, which aims to end the war.
According to the fire termination deal, over 375,000 Palestinians have passed to North Gaza, as Israel has allowed its return, the United Nations said on Tuesday. This represents more than one -third of the million people who fled in the open days of the war.
Many of the Palestinians who were moving by the sea or passed in vehicles after security inspections received the first view of the broken northern gas under the fragile end of the fire, which is already on its second week.
They were found if their homes were damaged or destroyed, place improvised shelters or sleep outdoors among the huge piles of broken concrete or dangerously inclined buildings. After months of clusters in tent or former schools to the south of Gaza, they would finally go home.
“It is still better to be on our ground than to live on a land that is not yours,” said Faise Al Nazal as he was preparing to leave the southern town of Khan Eunice for the North.
Hani al -Shanti, displaced by Gaza, eagerly awaited to feel in peace in everything he found, “even if it was a roof and walls without furniture, even if it was without a roof.”
According to the termination of the fire, the next release of hostages conducted in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners from Israeli detention is imposed on Thursday, followed by another exchange on Saturday.
In the six -week first phase of the termination of the fire, a total of 33 hostages taken in the attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, who lit the war, must be released, along with more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Israel said a list provided by Hamas confirmed fears that eight of the 33 hostages to be released are dead, carrying fresh grief of Israeli families who have long pressed the government to reach a deal to return everyone home , before the time expires.
On Tuesday, one of the first hostages released under the current end of fire – just the second in the war – shared a look at life in captivity.
The 20 -year -old Naama Levy writes on social media that she spent the bigger part of the first 50 days alone before reuniting with other soldiers abducted from her military base on October 7, as well as other civil captives.
“They gave me strength and hope,” she wrote. “We have strengthened each other until the day of our release, and also after.”
The tide of humanitarian aid in Gaza continued under the cessation of fire.
“In the past week alone, approximately 4200 trucks that carry help have entered the Gaza Strip after inspections,” said Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharne Haskel.
According to the transaction, 600 aid trucks are intended to enter a day.