Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will meet on Monday with President Trump at the White House, according to two officials of the White House and an Israeli official, in the second visit of the Israeli leader’s genre from the inauguration of the president in January.
Mr. Netanyahu will arrive in Washington after renewing the military campaign of Israel against Hamas in Gaza at the end of last month, despite the efforts of the helpers of Mr. Trump to be part of a new truce to stop the fighting there and free more hostages. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the question.
In addition to the Gaza war, the two leaders are likely to touch the wide -ranging races of Mr. Trump, who include a 17 % Markup on Israeli exports to the United States. Mr. Netanyahu had tried to avoid the rates on the eve of the announcement of Mr. Trump by canceling Israeli customs duties on American products – apparently unnecessarily.
However, the expectation of Mr. Netanyahu underlines how the Israeli leader saw his diplomatic position in Washington Shift from the return to power of Mr. Trump in January. Former president Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose relationship with Mr. Netanyahu became more and more fraught while Gaza’s war was going, did not meet him in the oval office until 2024.
Trump aligned his policy in the Middle East for the benefit in particular of Israel and has left little light of the day between himself and Mr. Netanyahu. When he entered office for his second term, Trump made the Israeli Prime Minister the first foreign leader to be invited to the White House.
A spokesman for Mr. Netanyahu did not respond to a request for comment on the visit. The Israeli Prime Minister was in Hungary during a state visit, where he met the country’s leader, Viktor Orban.
During the last trip of Mr. Netanyahu, Trump clarified that he was recommended to be part of a new diplomatic agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, a primary objective for both leaders. But Mr. Trump seemed to abandon support for a Palestinian state, despite the pressure of the Saudis.
Trump also described a vision for Gaza that involved an American acquisition and the mass release of the Palestinians from the encycling. The experts said that the apparently out of the ordinary proposal to remove the Palestinians probably violated international law. It was also widely rejected by the Arab nations. Since then Netanyahu has asked for “voluntary emigration” by Gazas, which critics have denounced as an effectively forced displacement.
Trump also canceled the sanctions imposed by Mr. Biden on the violent settlers of the West Bank and has released weapons in Israel withheld by the former president.
The Israeli forces have been constantly bombarded Gaza and advancing more deeply in the enclave since the war resumed at the end of March. Israel also prevented aid from entering Gaza for about a month, in Hamas’ pressure attempt, leading fears of a worsening of the humanitarian crisis for the Gazan.
The Trump administration has blamed Hamas for the collapse of the ceasefire. The truce – which started shortly before the inauguration of January of Mr. Trump – was held for about two months before Israel ended it definitely with a deadly bombing on March 18.
Hamas accused Israel of breaking the fire, which Steve Witkoff, sent to the Middle East of Mr. Trump, helped the broker. The agreement had obtained an initial six -week truce for both sides to negotiate a global agreement to free the remaining hostages and end the war, which Israel refused to pay an end to the Hamas rule there.
More than 50,000 Gaza were killed in the military campaign of Israel, of which over 1,000 from the end of the truce in late March, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza. Those figures do not distinguish between civilians and fighters.