Israel’s Gantz backs Trump’s Gaza proposal, urging Netanyahu to seize ‘tremendous opportunity’

Israel’s Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz has called Trump’s proposal to end the war in Gaza a “tremendous opportunity”, adding to domestic pressure on Netanyahu not to scupper the deal. He outlined two conditions Israel must secure for the deal to proceed.

In a post on X, the opposition politician said: “We must stand by it on two principles uncompromisingly: First – all the hostages return at the beginning of the path. This is the most urgent matter. Second – Israel maintains freedom of security action and does not entrust its security in the hands of a third party.

“This outline could have been reached long ago – and better late than never,” he added.

Netanyahu likely to accept Trump’s peace plan, but implementation remains uncertain

While Netanyahu will likely accept Trump’s plan later today, it is not guaranteed that he will implement it, says Gideon Levy, an Israeli political analyst and columnist.

“My guess is that Netanyahu will take it and accept it as a whole package in order not to show any kind of tension with Trump, of whom he is quite scared,” Levy told Al Jazeera.

“And later on, the real test will be in implementing this,” Levy said, noting that the US did not intervene when Israel violated past agreements.

Still, Netanyahu will struggle this time to appease both his far-right coalition partners, who don’t want to end the war, and Trump, who is eager to bank a diplomatic success – and both sides are key for the Israeli prime minister to stay in power, Levy said.

“He will do anything possible, firstly, to keep his government, to keep his coalition. For him, that’s the most important thing. At the same time, he cannot allow himself by any means to have any kind of tension and to lose Trump.”

Netanyahu expresses deep regret over strike on Qatar: White House

The White House says Israel’s prime minister has expressed regret over an air strike targeting a delegation of Hamas negotiators in Qatar on September 9.

“As a first step, Prime Minister Netanyahu expressed his deep regret that Israel’s missile strike against Hamas targets in Qatar unintentionally killed a Qatari serviceman,” a White House statement said.

“He further expressed regret that, in targeting Hamas leadership during hostage negotiations, Israel violated Qatari sovereignty and affirmed that Israel will not conduct such an attack again in the future.”

It added that Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani welcomed these assurances and expressed his country’s readiness to continue contributing to regional security.

White House shares Trump’s plan to end the war

The White House has just shared Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.

It includes turning Gaza into a “deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors” and says “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.”

“If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to prepare for a hostage release.”

Trump says Netanyahu has agreed to 20-point plan

In his speech, Trump says Netanyahu, who is standing next to him, has agreed to a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza.

What happened to the 21st point...

The captives are coming back, Trump adds

If accepted by Hamas, the proposal calls for the release of all captives within 72 hours, Trump says.

“The captives are coming back. … The bodies of the young men are coming back immediately,” Trump said.

Arab, Muslim leaders committed to demilitarising Gaza: Trump

Trump now adds that Arab and Muslim countries are committed to demilitarising Gaza.

There will be a new transitional authority, Trump said, adding: “All parties will agree on a timeline for Israeli forces to withdraw in phases.”

International oversight body to include Tony Blair: Trump

Trump says the plan includes the creation of an international oversight body – a “Board of Peace” – that would include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other people who would be named later.

According to the draft agreement distributed by the White House before the briefing, the body “will set the framework and handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the Palestinian Authority has completed its reform program”.

A new government would be made up of Palestinians and experts from around the world, according to the plan.

That's a non starter. Tony Blair is just another colonial war criminal who belongs in front of the ICC.

https://greens.scot/news/iraq-20-years-later-and-tony-blair-is-still-a-war-criminal
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/29/colonialism-and-tony-blair-again/

US president praises Abraham Accords, envisions future inclusion of Iran

The US president has praised the Abraham Accords and says he expects Iran to be a member one day: “They might very well be there.”

The 2020 agreements normalised ties between a number of Arab nations, including the UAE, and Israel.

That's all Trump is interested in, business.


Netanyahu ‘understands it’s time’: Trump

Trumps adds that Netanyahu “understands it’s time”.

“They are going to coexist with other people in countries in the region from Syria, Lebanon to Saudi Arabia – the promise of a new Middle East is so clearly within our range.”

Netanyahu outlines steps for Gaza ceasefire

“I support your plan to end the war in Gaza,” Netanyahu says.

The Israeli prime minister says the first step will be a “modest withdrawal followed by the release of all our hostages within 72 hours”.

The next step will be the establishment of an international body charged with fully disarming Hamas and demilitarising Gaza.

“If this international body succeeds, we will have permanently ended the war,” Netanyahu said.

Israel would then withdraw after Hamas’s disarmament but would remain in a security perimeter for the foreseeable future, he added.

??? So the occupation goes on...

Israel will ‘finish the job’ if Hamas rejects plan: Netanyahu

Netanyahu says if Hamas rejects the proposal or accepts it and then backtracks, “Israel will finish the job by itself.”

“This can be done the easy way, or it can be done the hard way. But it will be done,” he said. “We prefer the easy way, but it has to be done.”

War criminal threatens with more genocide...

Trump closes the news briefing, saying the two leaders would not take questions because they are “waiting for signatures and approvals”.

What’s in Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza?

WTF is this. This is not a peace plan, this is a plan for further occupation. Didn't work in Afghanistan, didn't work in Iraq, not going to work in Gaza. 

Trump backs intensified Israeli action in Gaza if Hamas does not accept plan

A notable point is that Hamas has not agreed yet to this plan. In fact, Trump says that if Hamas does not agree to the proposal, “we will back Israel as it does what it has to do.”

This is basically a green light for intensified Israeli action in Gaza if Hamas does not accept this 20-point plan.

Trump officially backs genocide, intentions are clear. Surrender of everyone dies.

Hamas says it has not received Trump’s Gaza plan

Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi tells Al Jazeera that the group has yet to receive Trump’s written Gaza peace plan.

Mardawi made these remarks in an interview with Al Jazeera shortly after Trump held the joint news conference with Netanyahu.

Trump plan faces scepticism over foreign control and Hamas’s potential rejection

The plan proposed by Trump is ambitious but highly complex.

It aims to reshape Gaza’s governance, security and economy. People believe the plan is an American attempt to control Gaza, especially with the deployment of a foreign stabilisation force that sounds politically and logistically very difficult to implement.

Many Palestinians believe that the current demands regarding the demilitarisation and removal of Hamas might be rejected, as it might be understood as a surrender. But things are still up in the air – Hamas has not so far delivered its response to these terms.

On the ground, people are quite sceptical about the success of this plan. As discussions were taking place in Washington, DC, Israel continued its bombing.

Still, people are looking forward to any kind of cessation of hostilities that can ensure the withdrawal of the Israeli military from Gaza, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and a guarantee that hostilities will not resume again, which was not quite obvious in the current plan.

Israeli opposition leaders welcome Trump’s plan

National Unity leader Benny Gantz has welcomed Trump’s proposal, saying “it must be implemented.”

“We must not miss out on the opportunity to bring back the hostages, safeguard our security and catalyse a ‘Strategic Flip’ expanding the circles of regional normalisation,” he said.

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid described the plan as “the right basis for a hostage deal and an end to the war”.

Netanyahu’s coalition partners silent on Trump’s plan

We haven’t had any comments so far from Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners as to what they think of Trump’s proposal.

They wanted Hamas to be disarmed as well as what they call the voluntary departure of Palestinians from Gaza. Nothing in this outline is what they wanted other than the release of the captives.

While there has been no reaction from these coalition partners, that’s a reaction in and of itself. Netanyahu will go back to his cabinet to present this plan, and there’s really not a lot of room for amendments or change, given how many parties are involved in this.

Netanyahu has said he agreed to this plan but that his government would have to pass it.

Hamas’s negotiating team ‘to study Trump’s proposal’

A diplomatic source has told Al Jazeera that Qatar and Egypt have delivered Trump’s plan to Hamas’s negotiating team, which has promised the mediators that it will study the proposal presented by Trump a short while ago.

‘This is a surrender for Hamas’

It’s a surrender for Hamas. There’s no other way of putting it.

I wish I could put a better spin on it, but Trump’s plan will be perceived by Hamas as an ultimatum to surrender or else the US will back its best friend Israel.

Now, they could be convinced that maybe they should surrender for the better, that maybe at least after three years of genocide and of incessant bombardment … that maybe that bloodbath will stop. Or that at least now, there’s a possibility, eventually, sometime in the future, for some sort of Palestinian state, God knows where.

But when the entire thing is based on the idea that there are terror networks in Gaza, that there are terrorists in Gaza, and this deal will ensure that they disarm and that the territory they once sort of governed under occupation will be disarmed, this is no less than a surrender.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/29/heres-the-full-text-of-trumps-20-point-plan-to-end-israels-war-on-gaza

Gazans say Trump’s peace plan a ‘farce’

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.”

Former Israeli diplomat says Trump’s proposal a ‘simulation game’

Former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas has expressed scepticism that the plan outlined by Trump and agreed to by Netanyahu would deliver on its promise of ending hostilities in Gaza.

“I don’t see an agreement yet,” Pinkas told Al Jazeera. “I see a great theoretical agreement. I see a simulation game.”

Netanyahu has a vested interest in this deal not working out, Pinkas said, and predicted that the Israeli leader would try to buy time in the coming days with the excuse of having his security apparatus assess the terms of the deal.

“I want to be optimistic, but I think this is too convoluted, too complex and there are too many contentious issues here.”

He added that while Hamas has been cornered into accepting the deal, he did not foresee the group freeing the remaining captives within 72 hours of an agreement as stipulated by Trump’s deal.

That would likely be physically impossible, Hamas just said they lost contact with some of the hostages in the ongoing bombardments.

Nah, this is just a set up to justify further genocide. Just another way to blame Hamas.


Nothing in the plan will hold Israel to account, nor the US, see how that goes in Lebanon

Hundreds of people killed by Israeli attacks on Lebanon in 10 months since ceasefire

Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in November after more than a year of cross-border fighting and two months of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah following Israel’s exploding pager attack on the Lebanese group.

According to the deal, both Israel and Hezbollah should have pulled out from southern Lebanon.

Yet Israel has continued to occupy five strategic points near its border in southern Lebanon and has carried out near-daily air strikes, which it says are targeting Hezbollah members but which regularly kill civilians.

While the ceasefire required the Lebanese army to expand its role in Lebanon and become the only armed force in the country, Hezbollah has refused to disarm.

On Saturday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem reiterated that the group would not give up its weapons, just a month after the new Lebanese government publicly committed to disarming the group.

In July, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the Israeli strikes had killed about 250 people and wounded 600 since November.

PIJ chief considers Trump’s Gaza plan ‘recipe to blow up region’

The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group Ziad al-Nakhala has said he considered the US announcement on Gaza a “recipe to blow up the region”.