While the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, celebrated meetings on Monday with Secretary of State Frame Rubio, special envoy of the Middle East Steve Witkoff and then President Donald Trump, here is the last one where the things are with negotiations of Alto El Fuego, and what is on the Trump administration agenda when it comes to drawing a course for the future of the Gaza.
What is on the table?
The agreement on the table would see ten living hostages, approximately half of the total number of detainees that are believed to be still alive in Gaza, and the remains of 18 more returned to Israel in five separate liberations in exchange for a high fire of 60 days, the release of some Palestinian prisoners and an overcoming humanitarian aid for the Palestinians in the enclave. T
The details of how that help would be supplied and distributed are still under negotiation, according to an official familiar with the matter.
The expectation is that conversations backed by the United States to permanently end the war would resume during the truce, authorities say.
President Donald Trump celebrates a bilateral dinner with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in the White House, on July 7, 2025.
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Where are things
Israel has signed in the main principles of the proposal as it is currently. Hamas has indicated that he sees potential, but still has some pending problems.
The officials familiar with the negotiations say that the greatest conflict point is consistent with the failed conversations in the past: Hamas wants guarantees that a high fire will lead to a permanent end of the war. He wants guarantees that conversations during the high fire in a permanent end of the war will continue beyond the 60 -day window if necessary.
Israel, meanwhile, is reluctant to sign any language that restricts military action.
Israel is also inflexible that Hamas cannot be allowed to play any role in the Gaza government, a term with which the Trump administration is aligned. Both governments distrust a situation similar to that which existed in Lebanon with Hezbollah, where a civil government is instead, but the militant group has significant control.
Hamas also wants to see the controversial final operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and the UN other other international organizations allow to completely resume distribution. American officials say they believe there is room for commitment at this point, but does not expect the GHF to be backed by the United States to be completely expelled.
Daniel Dannon, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, told journalists last week that he could foresee a “combination” of GHF and the help of the UN in a “day later” scenario by Gaza.
Israeli and Hamas officials are holding indirect proximity conversations in Doha to try to solve some of the differences, and the White House said early Monday that Witkoff would travel there this week.
Witkoff’s participation is considered a promising sign for the possibility of reaching an agreement, but also as an indication that a higher level of the US will be needed. UU. To overcome the finish line.
Where are things below
The officials are considering President Trump and other key meetings of Cabinet members with Netanyahu as work commitments, because although Israel sees with the United States in the main terms of the high fire agreement, the administration is looking for Netyahu while trying to put an end to the end and establish itself in the objectives for the “day later” in Gaza.
Trump has largely focused on expanding Abraham’s agreements, an agreement in his first term that led to the normalization of relations between Israel and some Arab nations. He also proposed a relocation plan for the two million Palestinians of Gaza, which Netyahu supported at that time.
It is considered that an expansion of Abraham’s agreements and a “day later” proposal for Gaza need a broader regional acceptance of influential Arab states, such as Saudi Arabia.
Many of them insist that the AP should play a role in the Gaza government, to which Israel has opposed. The discussions at the level of work on Gaza with those Governments of the Middle East are occurring continuously.
Trump is looking for a great victory in Gaza, and an impulse in Iran
Trump is looking for a “victory with a” V “capital during Netanyahu’s visit, said Dana Stroul, former deputy secretary of Deputy Defense for the Middle East from 2021 to 2023.
The president, who has said that he will measure the success of his presidency for the wars that he is over, will seek to leave the fire that negotiated in Iran with a high fire in Gaza.
He “not only has leverage, but has accumulated good will” with Netanyahu after the United States joined the Israel War in Iran, Stroul said.
“President Trump has put resources in the game, not only in words. And so he has influence at this time to tell Netanyahu, it’s time to relax the wars in Gaza,” he said.
While it is not clear what diplomatic result is looking in Iran after his blows there, the president could try to deposit his good will and “make clear [to Netanyahu] How wants to advance in Iran’s archive. “
“It certainly has the creation of a great deal,” said Stroul. But a stop the fire would only temporarily stop the struggles before a broad agreement of “day later” can be negotiated for Gaza, and the region.
