Israel rejected Trump's plan for a settlement in the Gaza Strip. What the media is writing

Israel rejected the proposal of US President Donald Trump, voiced through the Peace Council he created, to resolve the situation in the Gaza Strip. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his troops will not withdraw from the region until Hamas is disarmed. The group itself claims to be ready to hand over heavy weapons. What the media write about the situation in the Gaza Strip is in the Izvestia digest.

Bloomberg: Netanyahu rejects Trump's plan to disarm Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by US-backed mediators to disarm Hamas. He toughened his position over the suggestion that Israel should respond by withdrawing its troops from the Gaza Strip in stages. Netanyahu said this at the weekly cabinet meeting on August 9.

Netanyahu reacted in this way to the roadmap published on July 30 by the Peace Council, an international body created to implement US President Donald Trump's post—war vision for the Palestinian territory. The President called this roadmap a "historic agreement" and an "important milestone." Hamas gave only an evasive agreement to the proposed plan, saying it would transfer heavy weapons to the proposed new administration in Gaza, conditional on the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the creation of a Palestinian state.

Reuters: Netanyahu says Trump's new Gas plan is unacceptable

Netanyahu, in a televised address to his government, reiterated his rejection of Trump's latest plan for Gaza, despite the fact that the Israeli military has effectively stopped attacks on the territory under pressure from the US president since August 3. This happened after Nikolai Mladenov, director General of the Peace Council, met with Netanyahu.

A source familiar with Israel's position said that an agreement had been reached that the military would only act against what it perceived as immediate threats in Gaza and would no longer carry out targeted killings, as it did almost daily. Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim said the group remains committed to the roadmap agreed in Cairo 10 days ago.

Anadolu: Mladenov said that Israel will withdraw troops in the Gaza Strip

Nikolai Mladenov, Director General of the Gaza Peace Council, said that Israel would withdraw its troops from the occupied territories in the Gaza Strip in the event of the complete disarmament of Hamas. According to him, the previously announced plan is based on three main elements: the complete disarmament of Gaza, the transfer of administrative responsibility for Gaza to the Peace Council through the national committee, and the deployment of international security forces in the region to monitor the implementation of the agreement.

According to Mladenov, Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will be carried out by districts. After the completion of the disarmament process in each area, the Israeli army will gradually withdraw from there. Mladenov noted that the plan does not prevent Israel from responding to any "sudden threat" to its forces. He said that disarmament would cover "all types of weapons," including heavy and light weapons, tunnels, weapons production facilities, as well as other groups in the Gaza Strip besides Hamas.

The Washington Post: Netanyahu's refusal was another blow to Trump's efforts to end conflicts in the Middle East.

As Trump sought to end the war with Iran that he himself had unleashed with Israel, new disagreements arose in the once-strong relationship with Netanyahu. The Israeli Prime Minister hinted at them in his statements about the plan of action in Gaza. He also stated that the withdrawal of Israeli troops would be carried out only after "genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament."

Trump has not yet publicly commented on Netanyahu's statements. Regarding the situation in the Middle East, he discussed the state of negotiations with Iran, saying that the United States is "only conducting semi-negotiations" with Tehran and "does not advertise the situation."

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The Times of Israel: Netanyahu and Katz secretly approved the reconstruction of part of Gaza

Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz secretly gave the go-ahead to begin reconstruction work in southern Gaza, despite promises that reconstruction of the hard-hit strip would begin only after the disarmament of Hamas. Reconstruction work, including the construction of residential infrastructure, is underway in the area of east Rafah, which is under the control of the IDF, but not far from the "yellow Line" forming the border with Hamas.

Netanyahu's office also stated that work on the construction of electricity, sewage and water infrastructure will not be carried out by Gazans and will be carried out under the supervision of the IDF. In January, Netanyahu insisted that the reconstruction of Gaza would only be allowed if Hamas first renounced its weapons, which the group has so far refused to do, even though a recently proposed U.S. agreement rejected by Israel seemed to pave the way for disarmament.