White House says Trump will draw ‘red line’ on Gaza proposal
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that the US president expects Hamas to accept his Gaza proposal, and could impose consequences if the group does not do so.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza began nearly two years ago, the US has often pushed Israel-backed proposals unlikely to garner Palestinian support and then blamed Hamas as the primary obstacle to ending the conflict.
“It’s a red line that the president of the United States is going to have to draw, and I’m confident that he will,” Leavitt said in an interview with Fox News.
On Tuesday, Trump said he was giving Hamas “three or four days” to respond to his Gaza plan.
Leavitt, the White House press secretary, has described Trump’s plan as “acceptable”. “And we hope and we expect Hamas should accept this plan so we can move forward,” she said.
So Saturday Trump will give Israel the green light to continue the genocide. Oh wait, they never even slowed down.
Netanyahu isn’t looking for a yes from Hamas on Trump’s Gaza plan
That’s according to Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar, who notes that the Israeli prime minister has said Trump knows a two-state solution is a “non-starter” for him and his far-right government coalition.
“Netanyahu even said that there were more than 90 out of 120 members of the Knesset that voted against” a two-state solution, Eldar explained.
As we’ve been reporting, Trump’s proposal includes 20 points, including the establishment of “a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceful and prosperous co-existence”.
It's a plan to rebrand the occupation of Gaza and further tighten control on any resistance. Netanyahu has already stated the IDF will not leave Gaza, and even in the plan there is no full withdrawal and nothing about lifting the blockade.
