Pressure mounts on Netanyahu to secure Gaza ceasefire deal • FRANCE 24 English

The Israeli prime minister has voiced hopes that a meeting with the US president in Washington this Monday can help advance a ceasefire deal. Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas began on Sunday evening in Doha, which as well as an end to the fighting aims to reach a deal on the release of hostages from Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. On Monday, Palestinian sources told Reuters that the first round of talks ended inconclusively. A perennial sticking point being whether the ceasefire will lead to the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and end the war altogether. Donald Trump, whose policies have largely aligned with Israel’s own priorities, pledged last week to be very firm with Netanyahu on ending the war without saying what that would entail. Let’s take a listen to the Israeli prime minister. We are working to achieve the deal that we have discussed under the conditions that we have agreed to. I have sent a team to negotiate with clear instructions and I think that this meeting with President Trump can definitely help advance this deal which we are all hoping for. For more on this story, we can cross to our correspondent in Jerusalem, Noga Tanapolski. Nogga Netanyahu is under immense pressure then to secure a ceasefire and bring hostages home. That’s what a majority of Israelis want to see. Will this finally be the moment Israel signs a deal? We don’t know. And it’s important to remember, I would say, two things. One is that in that statement that we just saw from the prime minister as he was about to depart for Washington, he underscored that what he wants is a deal quote on our terms. So we’re not sure Netanyahu has flown to DC with any kind of a spirit of flexibility or of advanced motion. The team that he sent to negotiate on Israel’s behalf in Doha is not at all uh the level the kind of a team that is authorized to make decisions or to actually take concrete steps on Israel’s behalf. So right now we have to say that things look a little bit doubtful and Netanyahu is facing immense and uh opposing pressure from the president of the United States on the one hand who has said very clearly he wants to see this war over and the people of Israel, the majority of the people of Israel who similarly want to see this war over. But Netanyahu faces the counter pressure from his own extremist ministers who are threatening at any moment to abandon the coalition uh and possibly topple Netanyahu’s hold on power if in fact he does decide uh on any deal that would bring an end to the war. Also, one last thing I want to say. Back in January, just before President Trump took office, Israel signed a similar deal and simply walked away from it right before the moment that it was supposed to advance towards negotiations on ending the war. So, Israel doesn’t have the best track record right now with these discussions. And this trip to Washington was expected to be a major victory lap for the Israeli prime minister after joint air strikes with the US on Iran. But is that actually what it’s shaping up to be? We don’t know. And obviously um any visit to the White House these days is a very shifting uh scenario. But right now it is a very strange visit. Netanyahu was expecting to be able to shine in a major photo op at least next to President Trump. A sort of joint victory lap on behalf of the Israeli for the Israeli prime minister. the first who really attacked Iran’s nuclear program and the American president who joined him in these attacks and kind of delivered the coupras and yet there’s nothing scheduled. Today is Monday. It’s the most important day of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit and there are no press events scheduled. Zero. The next few days that Netanyahu will be in Washington, he’s not uh planning on as far as we know there’s no plan for him to meet the president again. He’ll be meeting with lower level officials. And today’s meeting with Trump will take place when it’s 1:30 in the morning in Israel. Uh a dinner, a private dinner for the two of them in the White House with no images right now planned. So, it does seem to be uh a somewhat awkward visit this time, and we’ll just have to see how

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to meet with US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, while Israeli officials hold indirect talks with Hamas, aimed at a US-brokered Gaza hostage-release and ceasefire deal. Netanyahu is facing “immense” pressure from both Trump and the Israeli public to secure a deal and bring the remaining Israeli hostages home, says France 24’s Noga Tarnopolsky, but this may not necessarily mean a ceasefire will be agreed, she says.
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  2. For more than 20 months the pressure has been only on Nathanyahu like if fighting a ghost. Has there been any 'pressure' on Hamas ? Off course not, no one can touch them, they can sacrifice their people yet no one says a word. The hypocrisy of the whole thing is sickening and appalling

  3. Hey France24, Israel AGREED to a ceasefire deal. Do you even know what you're talking about? This channel doesn't even know what is going on in real time. How can these people report "news" when they don't know what is happening?

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