Have Trump and Netanyahu really agreed on a Gaza peace plan? Key takeaways

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After gathering with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Monday, US President Donald Trump said the leaders were “close” to achieving bid successful the Middle East.

“At the precise least, astatine a minimum very, precise close,” Trump said during a associated quality league astatine the White House.

He outlined his caller 20-point plan to extremity Israel’s warfare connected Gaza and unafraid the merchandise of Israeli captives inactive being held successful the Palestinian territory. Diplomatic sources person told Al Jazeera that Hamas’s negotiating squad is studying Trump’s plan to extremity the war.

Here are the cardinal takeaways:

Trump acknowledgment Netanyahu for agreeing to the plan

“Thank you precise much, everybody. This is simply a big, large day, a beauteous day, perchance 1 of the large days ever successful civilisation,” Trump said arsenic the quality league started.

“And I’m not conscionable talking astir Gaza. Gaza is 1 thing, but we’re talking astir overmuch beyond Gaza. The full deal, everything getting solved. It’s called bid successful the Middle East,” helium added.

“Prime Minister Netanyahu and I person conscionable concluded an important gathering connected galore captious issues, including Iran, trade, the enlargement of the Abraham Accords, and, astir importantly, we discussed however to extremity the warfare successful Gaza, but it’s conscionable a portion of the bigger picture, which is bid successful the Middle East, and let’s telephone it eternal bid successful the Middle East,” Trump said.

He thanked Netanyahu and leaders from the Middle East, arsenic good arsenic Turkiye, Indonesia, Pakistan and Europe.

Trump introduces his plan

Trump introduced his program to extremity the war, noting that galore countries had contributed to its development.

“This afternoon, aft extended consultation with our friends and partners passim the region, I’m formally releasing our principles for peace, which radical person truly liked, I indispensable say,” Trump said.

He went connected to outline immoderate of the cardinal commitments successful the plan:

“Under the plan, Arab and Muslim countries person committed, and successful writing, successful galore cases … to demilitarise Gaza, and that’s quickly. Decommission the subject capabilities of Hamas and each different panic organisations. Do that immediately,” helium said.

“We’re relying connected the countries… to woody with Hamas. And I’m proceeding that Hamas wants to get this done, too. That’s a bully thing,” helium added.

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He past expanded connected dismantling Hamas’s operational capacity.

“And destruct each panic infrastructure … including the tunnels, weapons and accumulation facilities. There’s a batch of accumulation facilities that we’re destroying. It’ll besides assistance bid section constabulary forces successful the areas that we’re discussing, close now, successful peculiar successful and astir Gaza, moving with the caller transitional authorization successful Gaza.”

Turning backmost to the relation of Arab and Muslim nations, Trump emphasised the request for collaboration.

“Arab and Muslim nations request to beryllium allowed the accidental to fulfil these commitments of dealing with Hamas. They person to woody with them due to the fact that they were the 1 radical that we person not dealt with. I haven’t dealt with them.”

“But the Arab countries are going to, and Muslim countries, are going to beryllium dealing with Hamas. And I judge they’ve already been there. I deliberation they astir apt person an understanding. They haven’t, maybe, mentioned that, but I would ideate they do. Otherwise, they wouldn’t person gone arsenic acold arsenic they’ve gone.”

Governing Gaza

Under Trump’s plan, a “technocratic” enactment of Palestinians, unaffiliated with immoderate governmental faction, volition govern Gaza connected a day-to-day ground aft the extremity of the war.

But that Palestinian enactment volition beryllium selected not by the Palestinian people, but by a caller planetary assemblage that would oversee the implementation of the bid plan. Trump said this organisation, called the “board of peace”, would beryllium tasked with ensuring the agreement’s occurrence and bringing unneurotic cardinal determination and planetary leaders.

He said that the oversight assemblage would beryllium chaired by him, personally.

“It would beryllium headed by a man known arsenic President Donald J Trump of the United States. That’s what I want, immoderate other enactment to do, but it’s truthful important that I’m consenting to bash it,” Trump said.

Trump explained that the assemblage would besides see different leaders.

“We’ll bash it close … We’ll person a board. One of the radical that wants to beryllium connected the committee is the UK erstwhile Prime Minister Tony Blair. Good man, precise bully man. And immoderate others.”

“Hamas and different violent factions volition play nary relation successful the board,” Trump added.

Gaza’s information and semipermanent governance

Trump’s program speaks of an planetary stabilisation unit (ISF) that the US and its Arab and different partners volition acceptable up to oversee the information of Gaza aft Hamas is demilitarised.

“This unit volition beryllium the semipermanent interior information solution. The ISF volition enactment with Israel and Egypt to assistance unafraid borderline areas, on with recently trained Palestinian constabulary forces,” the program outlines.

But Netanyahu, lasting adjacent to Trump astatine the quality conference, suggested that Israel has different ideas.

“Israel volition clasp information responsibility, including a information perimeter, for the foreseeable future,” Netanyahu said. “Gaza volition person a peaceful civilian medication that is tally neither by Hamas nor by the Palestinian Authority, but by those committed to a genuine bid with Israel.”

Netanyahu’s comments are besides astatine likelihood with Trump’s program connected Gaza’s semipermanent governance. The program suggests that the Palestinian Authority tin instrumentality implicit Gaza’s governance successful the agelong tally if it implements a bid of reforms.

Hamas inactive needs to respond

“So now, it’s clip for Hamas to judge the presumption of the program that we’ve enactment guardant today. And again, this is simply a antithetic Hamas than we were dealing with, due to the fact that I conjecture implicit 20,000 person been killed,” Trump said.

“Their enactment has been killed 3 times over. So, you’re truly dealing with antithetic radical than we’ve been dealing with implicit the past 4 years, 5 years,” helium added.

According to Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara, this connection involves “the surrender for Hamas”.

“I privation I could enactment a amended rotation connected it, but Trump’s program volition beryllium perceived by Hamas arsenic an ultimatum to surrender, oregon other the US volition backmost its champion friend, Israel,” helium said.

Now, they could beryllium convinced that possibly they should surrender for the better, that possibly astatine slightest aft 3 years of genocide and of incessant bombardment … that possibly that bloodbath volition stop,” Bishara explained.

“But erstwhile the full happening is based connected the thought that determination are panic networks successful Gaza, that determination are terrorists successful Gaza, and this woody volition guarantee that they disarm and that the territory they erstwhile benignant of governed nether concern volition beryllium disarmed, this is nary little than a surrender,” Bishara added.

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Trump’s connection to Palestinians

In outlining the proposal, Trump said the program was intended to supply Palestinians with an accidental to instrumentality work for their future.

“So, determination are galore Palestinians who privation to unrecorded successful peace. I’ve seen truthful galore of them, and they person support,” helium said.

“I situation the Palestinians to instrumentality work for their destiny, due to the fact that that’s what we’re giving them. We’re giving them work for their destiny, [to] afloat condemn and prohibit coercion and gain their mode to a brighter future. They don’t privation the beingness that they’ve had. They’ve had a unsmooth beingness with Hamas,” helium added.

“If the Palestinian Authority does not implicit the reforms that I laid retired successful my imaginativeness for bid successful 2020, they’ll person lone themselves to blame.”

Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Gaza, said that radical remained sceptical astir the occurrence of this plan.

“Many Palestinians judge that the existent demands regarding the demilitarisation and removal of Hamas mightiness beryllium rejected,” helium said.

“Still, radical are looking guardant to immoderate benignant of cessation of hostilities that tin guarantee the withdrawal of the Israeli subject from Gaza, the merchandise of Palestinian prisoners, and a warrant that hostilities volition not resume again, which was not rather evident successful the existent plan,” helium added.

US volition backmost Israel to ‘do what you person to do’ if Hamas rejects the deal

Trump besides addressed the anticipation that Hamas mightiness cull the proposal, stressing some US enactment for Israel and the request to face the radical directly.

“And, if Hamas rejects the deal, which is ever possible… arsenic you know, Bibi, you’d person our afloat backing to bash what you would person to do,” Trump said, utilizing Netanyahu’s nickname.

“A notable constituent is that Hamas has not agreed yet to this plan,” said Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from New York.

“This is fundamentally a greenish airy for intensified Israeli enactment successful Gaza if Hamas does not judge this 20-point plan,” helium added.

‘I enactment your plan,’ Netanyahu said

“I enactment your program to extremity the warfare successful Gaza, which achieves our warfare aims. It volition bring backmost to Israel each our hostages, dismantle Hamas’s subject capabilities and its governmental rule, and guarantee that Gaza ne'er again poses a menace to Israel,” Netanyahu said.

Al Jazeera’s James Bays, reporting from the United Nations, questioned Netanyahu’s intentions.

“Netanyahu has welcomed this, but does helium truly judge successful it? He has, for immoderate time, not been prepared to extremity the warfare oregon let assistance in,” Bays said.

“The program says determination should beryllium a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, but that’s thing Netanyahu has fought against his full governmental career.”

“So, I deliberation it could bring short-term payment for the radical of Gaza, but with galore questions astir however this volition each hap and imaginable hurdles connected the way,” Bays added.

Israel volition ‘finish the job’

Speaking astir the series of actions that would travel statement connected the plan, Netanyahu outlined a phased approach, linking withdrawals, captives’ releases and the relation of an planetary oversight body.

“If Hamas agrees to your plan, Mr President, the archetypal measurement volition beryllium a humble withdrawal, followed by the merchandise of each our hostages wrong 72 hours. The adjacent measurement volition beryllium the constitution of an planetary assemblage charged with afloat disarming Hamas and demilitarising Gaza.”

“Now, if this planetary assemblage succeeds, we volition person permanently ended the war. Israel volition behaviour further withdrawals linked to the grade of disarmament and demilitarisation, but volition stay successful the information perimeter for the foreseeable future.”

Netanyahu warned of the alternate if the program were rejected oregon subverted.

“But if Hamas rejects your plan, Mr President, oregon if they supposedly judge it and past fundamentally bash everything to antagonistic it, past Israel volition decorativeness the occupation by itself.”

“This tin beryllium done the casual way, oregon it tin beryllium done the hard way, but it volition beryllium done. We similar the casual way, but it has to beryllium done.”

“There are nary guarantees present to support Palestinian interests,” Phyllis Bennis, a chap astatine the Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies, told Al Jazeera.

“There is each denotation that if astatine immoderate constituent Israel decides they privation to spell backmost to the warfare arsenic soon arsenic they get their hostages back, they are going to say, ‘Well, we are conscionable not getting the benignant of practice that we expected, truthful we gotta spell backmost to war; atrocious astir that, Mr President’,” she added.