President Donald Trump said Friday that an agreement between Israel and Hamas For the liberation of hostages kidnapped in Gaza and the end of the Israeli offensive is “very close.”
“I think we have an agreement in Gaza, the agreement is very close. It will be a pact that will bring the hostages back and end the war,” he said before leaving for a Golf Tournament in New York.
Trump said that this conflict would represent the eighth war that manages to end from his return to power last January, the agency said EFE.
Last Tuesday, Trump met on the margins of the UN General Assembly with representatives from several Arab and Muslim countries, reiterating that he will not allow the Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank.
In addition, next Monday you will receive in the White House the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, at the fifth meeting they will hold so far this year.
Netanyahu intervened in the UN General Assembly, where delegations from numerous countries boycotted him, and said that the recognition of the Palestinian State constitutes a “reward” to anti -Semitism.
During his speech, and contrary to Trump’s proposal, Netanyahu said that Israel’s offensive in Gaza would follow.
The UN accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza while the army advances with its land offensive
Genocide in Gaza
An independent UN Commission and several countries have described the Israeli military offensive in Gaza as a genocide, with more than 65 200 dead Palestinians, including more than 19,000 children.
In this context, the former British prime minister Tony Blair participates in conversations about the creation of a transition authority in Gaza if a high fire is reached, and is the white house candidate to direct that agency, according to the BBC.
Blair has maintained high -level negotiations with all the parties involved to try to end the war and plan Gaza’s future, clarifying that it will not support any solution that implies the displacement of the population of the enclave.
The last proposal debated by Trump and Arab leaders in the UN Assembly argues that Gaza is temporarily administered by a transition body, backed by the United Nations and Gulf countries, before being returned to Palestinian control.
Who is Tony Blair?
In August, Blair participated in a meeting at the White House with Trump over Gaza, where ideas about postwar periods and the possibility of increasing humanitarian aid to enclave, which faces a serious food crisis.
There have also been contacts between Blair and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abás, as well as among the American exassor Jared Kushner and Netanyahu.
Blair, sent from the international powers quartet after leaving Downing Street in 2007, has historically worked on the economic development of Palestine and creating conditions for a solution of two states.
For his part, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently announced the formal recognition of the state of Palestine, along with other countries such as Australia and Canada.
