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Trump ‘will realise that he was cheated’ by Netanyahu over Gaza
Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, says despite the clear opposition from Israeli security chiefs to plans for the intensified operation to take Gaza City, the Netanyahu government appears resolved to push ahead with the offensive.
Speaking to Al Jazeera from Tel Aviv, Levy said the only thing he could see forcing the Israeli government to change course was “a phone call from President Trump – a phone call that doesn’t arrive”.
He said that while the Israeli government had been “very successful until now” in misleading the US president with “hollow promises” of a total victory in Gaza, Trump was facing pushback from his Make America Great Again (MAGA) backers and there were indications that his support could be cooling.
“There will be a point in which [Trump] will realise that he was cheated, but I don’t know when this will come,” said Levy. “Meanwhile, we know dozens and dozens are killed each day … The catastrophe continues.”
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No response from Israel to latest ceasefire proposal in Gaza: Qatar’s Foreign Ministry
Majed al-Ansari, the spokesman of Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, says Israel has yet to respond to the latest ceasefire proposal for Gaza, which had been accepted by Hamas, and has called on the Netanyahu government to engage in negotiations to end the war.
“There has been no Israeli response yet,” he said, adding that there have been ongoing contacts with “mediators and the US, but so far there has been no progress on the framework”.
“There must be an Israeli response and engagement in negotiations, but there is nothing new so far,” he added.
He said Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza “poses a threat to everyone”, including Israeli captives in Gaza, and that a “unified international position must be formed to stop Israel”.
“There is no point in waiting for the peace process while no Israeli party wants this process,” he said.
