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President Donald Trump is leaning on Israel to finish its battle in Gaza and safe a hostage deal as he appears to broaden the Abraham Accords – a cornerstone achievement of his first time period.
The stress is mounting as Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer is about to carry White Home conferences on Monday on ending the 20-month-long battle in Gaza.
In a 1 a.m. Sunday put up on his social media platform Reality Social, Trump mentioned, “Make the deal in Gaza. Get the hostages again!!!”
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President Donald Trump is joined by Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Vice President JD Vance throughout a gathering within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Feb. 4, 2025. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Submit through Getty Pictures)
Stories on Sunday recommended mediators overseeing the hostage negotiations – that are intently tied to securing an finish to Israel’s army operations and a day-after plan for Gaza – are pushing Israel to ship negotiators to Egypt. However Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far refused to take action.
As a substitute, Dermer was reportedly despatched to Washington to make sure the U.S. and Israel are aligned earlier than oblique negotiations proceed.
Israel maintains that Hamas has been the roadblock in returning the remaining 50 hostages nonetheless held by the terrorist community, together with 49 of whom had been kidnapped on Oct.7, 2023, in addition to one deceased hostage who has been held since 2014.
Based on the Israeli Ministry of International Affairs, one other 27 of the hostages are assessed to have been killed both throughout or because the October 2023 assault, together with two People, Itay Chen and Omer Neutra.
Netanyahu has additionally mentioned there are “doubts” concerning the destiny of a number of different hostages.
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Kin of hostages nonetheless held in Gaza, Anthony Rubio, Moshe Lavi, Tzur Goldin, Iair Horn and Ilay David, meet with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (The Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board)
On Monday, the Israeli Minister of International Affairs Gideon Sa’ar mentioned, “Israel is critical in its will to achieve a hostage deal and ceasefire in Gaza.”
He pointed to Jerusalem’s acceptance of a latest proposal introduced by Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff, however which Hamas rejected because it didn’t embrace an answer to a everlasting ceasefire and a plan to withdraw Israeli forces from Gaza.
Witkoff is predicted to go to Cairo within the coming days to start hashing out new negotiations.
Ending Israel’s military operations in Gaza will show a vital step in increasing Trump’s ambitions to carry new nations into the Abraham Accords.
On Monday, Sa’ar echoed Jerusalem’s ambitions on this effort and mentioned, “We’ve got alternatives in entrance of us. We paid for the brand new actuality within the Center East with the blood of our troopers and residents.”
A view of a avenue within the Gaza Strip as seen from an Israeli army car, June 8, 2025. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun )
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“Israel is all in favour of increasing the Abraham Accords circle of peace and normalization. We’ve got an curiosity in including nations, comparable to Syria and Lebanon, our neighbors, to the circle of peace and normalization – whereas safeguarding Israel’s important and safety pursuits,” he added.
Trump has not detailed which nations are all in favour of normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel, although nations like Saudi Arabia have made clear that as long as Palestinians proceed to undergo within the Israel-Hamas battle, normalization is off the desk.
“We’ve got some actually nice nations in there proper now, and I feel we’ll begin loading them up, as a result of Iran was the first drawback,” Trump instructed Maria Bartiromo throughout an unique “Sunday Morning Futures” interview this week.
