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On Monday evening, the American special envoy Stephen Wikov expressed his hope that there will be progress in efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement and the release of prisoners in the Gaza Strip “before or during President Donald Trump’s visit to the region.
And the Axius correspondent quoted Witkeov – in statements to reporters during an event on the occasion of “Independence Day” at the Israeli embassy in Washington – as saying that he is talking to Qatar, Egypt and Israel almost every day and hopes to achieve progress.
Wittakouf affirmed the desire of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restore the detainees in Gaza, and that “coordinated”.
Regarding the Israeli Council of Ministers ’decision launched an intense military operation in the Strip, Wittakouf said that Israel is a“ sovereign state and takes its decisions by itself ”and that President Trump supports it.
He also stressed the importance of restoring the prisoners, stressing the need for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to disarm it.
President Trump had announced earlier that he would go next week to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, while Axius quoted a US official as saying that there is no point in Trump’s visit to Israel.
According to Israeli officials who spoke to the site, the war on the Gaza Strip is the reason that Israel was not included in the US President’s tour of the region, but they indicated at the same time that Trump gave Netanyahu the green light to do what he deems appropriate.
Axius also quoted an Arab official as saying that the general picture of President Trump’s visit to the region in the context of the Gaza war is very bad.
Trump also said that his country will deliver food aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip, accusing – in statements at the White House – many parties to contributing to the exacerbation of the situation, and Hamas’s “seizure” of everything that is inserted into the Strip, he said.
