President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, can be a part of the talks after Hamas and Israel agreed to maneuver ahead with the primary stage of the U.S. plan.
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Delegations from Israel, the U.S. and Hamas are headed to a seaside metropolis in Egypt to start talks on Monday that would finish Israel’s warfare in Gaza. However first, the delegations must iron out the main points of returning all remaining hostages held in Gaza and releasing some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. And in Egypt, the delegations might want to handle large uncertainties over unresolved points, like how Gaza can be ruled if the warfare ends. With us is NPR’s Emily Feng, who has been following all of this over the weekend. Hello, Emily.
EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Hey, Andrew.
LIMBONG: So what will we find out about the place this American proposal to finish the warfare stands?
FENG: So the most recent is, final night time, President Trump printed this map of Gaza on social media exhibiting the preliminary line that Israel’s army mentioned it will conform to withdraw to – it is nonetheless within Gaza, nevertheless – as soon as the hostages are launched. And Trump wrote that if Hamas agrees to this preliminary withdrawal line, then a complete ceasefire would start instantly.
Now immediately, Shosh Bedrosian, who’s the spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace, struck a tough tone immediately. She reiterated the Israeli place that Hamas must be disarmed as a part of this peace deal, and that is not one thing Hamas has agreed to.
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SHOSH BEDROSIAN: This can be achieved the simple manner, or it will likely be achieved the exhausting manner. However both manner, the tip outcome can be achieved.
FENG: So disarmament is without doubt one of the thorniest points that negotiators should take care of beginning Monday within the metropolis of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt. Plus, President Trump has proposed, as a part of his plan, this worldwide board chaired by him to manipulate Gaza. Hamas has mentioned in its response to this proposal it needs a Palestinian physique to supervise the enclave.
LIMBONG: Emily, you are in Israel. What is the temper there? I imply, like, that is the closest they’ve come to getting their hostages again.
FENG: Individuals are cautiously hopeful…
LIMBONG: Yeah.
FENG: …As a result of persons are bored with the warfare. Greater than half of Israelis polled final week by a joint survey by way of an Israeli newspaper and a analysis institute, discovered greater than half of individuals again this American ceasefire proposal. Since October 2023, when the warfare started, there’s been this weekly demonstration in downtown Tel Aviv, and what caught out to me these previous couple of weeks going to this demonstration is a number of the speeches and even indicators that persons are holding at the moment are addressed to U.S. President Trump and never Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu. So final night time, after I went to one in every of these demonstrations, I requested Zvia Agur about this. She has been coming to each one in every of these protests for almost two years now, and here is what she mentioned.
ZVIA AGUR: Netanyahu shouldn’t be our chief. He is our enemy. That is my feeling. Once we noticed that he acts towards our true and simply ambitions, then we have now to battle him.
FENG: Agur and different protesters instructed me that they relaxation their hopes on the U.S., not their very own authorities to strong-arm Israeli leaders into accepting an finish to the warfare even when Israel would not get this whole victory that Netanyahu had aspired to.
LIMBONG: And in Gaza, greater than 66,000 Palestinians have been killed on this warfare. That is in response to Gaza’s well being ministry. And as I perceive, regardless that Israel has curtailed a few of its army operations there, they’ve continued what they name, quote, “defensive actions” in Gaza, proper?
FENG: Sure. Strikes proceed, and I’ve been listening to these booms all day coming from the Beit Hanoun space in Gaza’s northeast. And for perspective, I am in Tel Aviv. That is some 40 miles away. NPR’s man on the bottom in Gaza, Anas Baba, has been recording the sounds of the shelling on the bottom. He is been recording sounds of armed drones and airstrikes all all through the weekend, together with a strike on Saturday which killed 18 individuals. This is 52-year-old A’id Fuad al-Minawi who instructed Anas, my colleague, that there is been this intense acceleration and bombing in Gaza after Hamas responded to the ceasefire proposal.
A ID FUAD AL-MINAWI: (Non-English language spoken).
FENG: And Al-Minawi instructed Anas that he fears this newest proposal is only a entice, that Israel will impose not possible new circumstances after they get their hostages and the warfare may start once more.
LIMBONG: That is NPR’s Emily Feng in Tel Aviv. Emily, thanks a lot.
FENG: Thanks, Andrew.
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