Trump calls for a deal on the Gaza war as signs of progress emerge

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday pleaded for advancement successful ceasefire talks successful the warfare successful Gaza, calling for a woody that would halt the warring successful the 20-month-long struggle arsenic Israel and Hamas appeared to beryllium inching person to an agreement.

An Israeli authoritative said plans were being made for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to question to Washington successful the coming weeks, a motion determination whitethorn beryllium question connected a caller deal. The authoritative declined to sermon the absorption of the sojourn and spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon plans that had not yet been finalized.

"MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!" Trump wrote connected his societal media level Truth Social aboriginal Sunday betwixt posts about a Senate vote on his taxation and spending cuts bill.

Trump raised expectations Friday for a deal, saying determination could beryllium a ceasefire statement wrong the adjacent week. Taking questions from reporters, helium said, "We're moving connected Gaza and trying to get it taken attraction of."

Trump has repeatedly called for Israel and Hamas to extremity the warfare successful Gaza. Despite an eight-week ceasefire reached conscionable arsenic Trump was taking bureau earlier this year, attempts since past to bring the sides toward a caller statement person failed.

A apical advisor to Netanyahu, Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, was acceptable to question to Washington this week for talks connected a ceasefire.

The Gaza connection wasn't the lone Middle East-related station by Trump. On Saturday evening, helium doubled down connected his disapproval of the ineligible proceedings against Netanyahu, who is on proceedings for alleged corruption, calling it "a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, precise akin to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure."

In the station connected Truth Social, helium said the proceedings interfered with talks connected a Gaza ceasefire.

"(Netanyahu) is close present successful the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which volition see getting the Hostages back. How is it imaginable that the Prime Minister of Israel tin beryllium forced to beryllium successful a Courtroom each time long, implicit NOTHING," Trump wrote.

The station echoed akin remarks Trump made past week erstwhile helium called for the proceedings to beryllium canceled. It was a melodramatic interference by an planetary state successful the home affairs of a sovereign state. And it unnerved galore successful Israel, contempt Trump's popularity successful the country.

The Israeli subject connected Sunday ordered a wide evacuation of Palestinians successful ample swaths of bluish Gaza, an aboriginal people of the warfare that has been severely damaged by aggregate rounds of fighting.

Col. Avichay Adraee, a subject spokesperson, posted the bid connected societal media. It includes aggregate neighborhoods successful eastbound and bluish Gaza City, arsenic good arsenic the Jabaliya exile camp.

The subject volition grow its escalating attacks to the city's bluish section, calling for radical to determination southward to the Muwasi country successful confederate Gaza, Adraee said.

After being each but emptied earlier successful the war, hundreds of thousands of radical are successful bluish Gaza pursuing their instrumentality during a ceasefire earlier this year.

An Israeli subject violative presently underway aims to determination Palestinians to confederate Gaza truthful forces tin much freely run to combat militants. Rights groups accidental their question would magnitude to forcible transfer.

The war successful Gaza began with Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas successful which militants killed 1,200 radical and took astir 250 hostage, astir 50 of whom stay captive with little than fractional believed to beryllium alive.

Israel's retaliatory effect has killed much than 56,000 people, according to section wellness authorities, who bash not separate betwixt militants and civilians successful their number but accidental much than fractional of the dormant are women and children.

The warfare has acceptable disconnected a humanitarian catastrophe, displaced astir of Gaza's population, often aggregate times, and obliterated overmuch of the territory's municipality landscape.

Talks betwixt Israel and Hamas person repeatedly faltered implicit 1 large sticking point, whether the warfare should extremity arsenic portion of immoderate ceasefire agreement.

Hamas authoritative Mahmoud Merdawi accused Netanyahu of stalling advancement connected a deal, saying successful remarks connected the Telegram messaging app that the Israeli person insists connected a impermanent statement that would escaped conscionable 10 of the hostages. A Netanyahu spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Hamas says it is consenting to escaped each the hostages successful speech for a afloat withdrawal of Israeli troops and an extremity to the war. Israel rejects that offer, saying it volition hold to extremity the warfare if Hamas disarms and goes into exile, thing the radical refuses.