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Trump personally backed Israeli attack on Gaza: Israeli analyst
Israel has claimed that it has not violated any existing agreements with Hamas because the ceasefire ended two weeks ago and accused Hamas of stalling the negotiations, according to Yoni Ben-Menachem, an Israeli journalist and political analyst.
The US, meanwhile, is “fed up” with the lack of progress and President Donald Trump has personally backed the Israeli attack on Gaza, the analyst told Al Jazeera from West Jerusalem.
Now-former President Joe Biden and later Trump also had an understanding with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if negotiations “do not go forward as Israel wants” and captives are not released, “then Israel has the right to resume the fire in Gaza”, Ben-Menachem said, adding that the general feeling among Israelis is that they do not want the war to end without the disbanding of Hamas’s military wing.
As we have been reporting, a ceasefire agreement was signed on January 17, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, and with a guarantee from the US. Hamas adhered to all the terms of the agreement in the first phase, while Israel did not adhere to a significant part of it, with more than 1,000 violations.
Israel, with the support of the US, has refused to move to the second phase of the agreement. The US administration presented an initiative through hostage envoy Adam Boehler to release an Israeli-American captive and four bodies. Hamas agreed, provided that the second phase was implemented. Israel rejected Adam Boehler’s proposal. US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff presented an initiative to release half of the living and half of the dead in exchange for 50 days of ceasefire.
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