Updates: Netanyahu agrees to Trump plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza

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• US President Donald Trump unveiled a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza, saying that if Hamas does not accept it, he will give full support to Israel to do “what it has to do”.
• Diplomatic sources told Al Jazeera that Hamas’s negotiating team is reviewing the proposal.
• The plan has been welcomed by several Western nations, including France and Italy, as well as Arab and Muslim countries, such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan.
• The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has said he considered the US proposal to be a “recipe to blow up the region”.
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apologised to Qatar’s prime minister for the death of a Qatari in the Israeli attack on Doha earlier this month.
• As talks were ongoing in Washington, Israel’s attacks continued in Gaza, where at least 39 people were killed.
• An Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon killed one person.

Omar Rahman, a fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, says that Trump’s peace plan is an agreement that leaves Israel and Hamas equally dissatisfied, but that several issues can be negotiated in its implementation phase.

“There are a number of good and bad elements to it,” Rahman told Al Jazeera. “It is also vague enough for wide interpretation and even manipulation over its implementation phase, and there is a lot that needs to be negotiated.”

Despite its flaws, the peace plan offers a lifeline to Palestinians as they are being “slaughtered”, Rahman said.

“Everything that can bring an end to this bloodshed and allow the entry of aid is good,” he added. “There is very little alternative for Palestinians, as Israel has been carrying out a genocide for the past two years, and nobody is stopping it.”

UNICEF says there are 25 ill or premature babies in incubators who need to be urgently evacuated due to Israel’s escalating attacks in Gaza City.

About half the babies are in Al Helou International Hospital, which Palestinian health officials said Israeli tanks surrounding it shelled overnight.

“It is time to move them because Gaza City again has become a combat zone, but moving them where? There is no safe place for them to go,” UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires told the Reuters news agency.

He said evacuating the babies, many of whom are newborns, would require transporting them in blanket-wrapped carts with portable oxygen supplies and drips, a dangerous trek that could expose them to infection, variable temperatures or supply shortages.

“Moving them seems like the best option we have now, … but at the same time, it’s a very risky one,” Pires said.

Members of the UK’s Labour Party have voted to recognise that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, in a move that increases pressure on the UK government to adopt the same position.

Delegates at Labour’s conference approved an emergency motion backing the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry, which earlier this month concluded that Israel “has committed genocide”. The vote was strongly supported by trade unions.

The decision contrasts with Labour leader and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as well as senior ministers, who have argued that the question of genocide should be determined by international courts rather than politicians.

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Adam Boehler, the US presidential envoy for captive affairs, has asked Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to accept the 20-point plan put forward by Trump, describing it as a deal where “everyone wins”.

“I want him to listen and hear that he was just offered something by two world leaders, two of the greatest world leaders… and Khaled has an opportunity to be great himself, and I believe that he will take it,” Boehler said, addressing Meshaal.

Boehler, who says he witnessed “negotiations back and forth with Hamas”, also described the plan as providing “everything that the Palestinians need, that people in Gaza need”.

I think most people, publicly, are welcoming this plan because this is coming from President Trump and because it comes after the high-level week here and meetings with Arab and Muslim leaders. But I think there are lots and lots of questions.

Netanyahu has welcomed this, but does he really believe in it? He has, for some time, not been prepared to end the war or allow aid in.

Will Hamas accept this? Even if they do, there are all sorts of things to happen for this to succeed.

You have the release the captives and the Palestinian prisoners. Then you’ve got to try and form this international force. We have the Indonesians, but which other countries will come forward?

Then you have the board of governance, the role of Tony Blair.

And then what happens long term, and the sovereignty of the Palestinians?

The plan says there should be a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood, but that’s something Netanyahu has fought against his entire political career.

So I think it could bring short-term benefit for the people of Gaza, but with many questions about how this will all happen and potential hurdles on the way.

As we reported earlier, Trump’s proposal envisions that the Palestinian Authority will take control of Gaza once it has undergone a reform programme.

Now, the PA has reaffirmed its commitment to complete that programme, including holding presidential and parliamentary elections within one year of the end of the war, according to a statement carried by the Wafa news agency.

“We affirmed that we seek a modern, democratic, and demilitarized Palestinian state committed to pluralism and the peaceful transfer of power,” it added.

It also pledged to establish a “unified social welfare system subject to international scrutiny”.

Turkish President Erdogan has hailed Trump for his efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza.

“I commend US President Donald Trump’s efforts and leadership aimed at halting the bloodshed in Gaza and achieving a ceasefire,” Erdogan said in a statement.

He added that Turkiye would continue to support the diplomatic process and is committed to helping establish “a just and lasting peace acceptable to all parties”.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has welcomed Trump’s plan, reiterating its commitment to work with the US and partners to reach a comprehensive deal that includes “paving [the] way for just peace on the basis of [a] two-state solution”, the Wafa news agency reported.

According to Trump’s proposal, the PA will take control of Gaza after completing a reform programme. Until then, Gaza will be governed by a “temporary transitional governance of a technocratic” Palestinian committee.

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who used to be an international envoy for the Middle East and was named by Trump as a member of his “board of peace” for Gaza, has expressed enthusiasm for the proposal.

Blair claimed that the plan brings immediate relief to Gaza and the opportunity for a brighter and better future for its people, while ensuring Israel’s security and the release of all captives, according to a statement.

• In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar and Egypt welcomed Trump’s announcement, saying they were ready to cooperate positively with the US and the relevant parties to finalise the agreement and ensure its implementation.
• Italy welcomed the proposal, saying it could mark a “turning point enabling a permanent cessation of hostilities, the immediate release of all hostages, and full and secure humanitarian access for the civilian population”.
• France’s President Macron says he expects “Israel to engage resolutely on this basis. Hamas has no choice but to immediately release all hostages and follow this plan”.

Residents of Gaza have expressed scepticism over the latest plan by Trump, dismissing it as a farce that would fail to end the war.

“It’s clear that this plan is unrealistic,” 39-year-old Ibrahim Joudeh told the AFP news agency from his shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast in southern Gaza.

“It’s drafted with conditions that the US and Israel know Hamas will never accept. For us, that means the war and the suffering will continue.”

Abu Mazen Nassar, 52, was equally pessimistic and feared that the plan aimed to trick Palestinian factions into releasing hostages held in Gaza with no peace in return.

“This is all manipulation. What does it mean to hand over all the prisoners without official guarantees to end the war?” asked Nassar, who was displaced from his home in northern Gaza to central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.

“We as a people will not accept this farce,” he said, adding: “Whatever Hamas decides now about the deal, it’s too late.”

As we’ve been reporting, the White House has unveiled a 20-point proposal by the US president to bring an immediate halt to Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians and left the Palestinian enclave in ruins.

Here is that plan published in full.