U.S. President Donald Trump urged Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas said on Friday it would agree to some aspects of Trump's peace plan to end the war. Kamran Bokhari, senior director at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the latest developments.
U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel on Friday to immediately stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages and some other terms in the administration's plan to end the war, but vexing issues like disarmament appeared unresolved.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said that Israel was preparing for an "immediate implementation" of the first stage of Trump's Gaza plan for the release of Israeli hostages following the response from Hamas.
The Palestinian militant group on Friday issued its response to Trump's 20-point plan after the U.S. president gave Hamas until Sunday to accept or face grave consequences.
The president, who has cast himself as the only person capable of achieving peace in Gaza, has invested significant political c
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