President Trump spoke Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel and its chief face rising international backlash over its plan to develop army management of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s workplace introduced the decision in a post on social media, saying the leaders “mentioned Israel’s plans for taking management of the remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza so as to deliver concerning the finish of the conflict, the discharge of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas.”
Netanyahu additionally “thanked President Trump for his steadfast assist of Israel because the begin of the conflict,” his workplace mentioned.
The decision comes as Netanyahu defends Israel’s plans to extend its army presence in Gaza with the said aim of wiping out the remaining Hamas strongholds within the Palestinian territory.
Trump has given Netanyahu a tacit endorsement to take over the Gaza Strip, at the same time as different U.S. and Israeli allies maintain again army help and condemn the Israeli authorities for the escalating starvation disaster in Gaza.
“I do know that we’re there now making an attempt to get individuals fed. … So far as the remainder of it, I actually can’t say. That’s going to be just about as much as Israel,” Trump mentioned earlier this week when requested about Netanyahu’s plan.
Netanyahu defended the plan in a Sunday press convention, accusing the nation’s critics and media shops of selling “pretend” tales about ravenous youngsters and evaluating the claims to lies unfold all through historical past to justify mass slaughters of Jews.
Germany introduced Friday it might halt army exports to Israel that can be utilized within the Gaza Strip. France, Canada and the UK beforehand expressed their intentions to acknowledge an impartial Palestinian state, a transfer vehemently opposed by Israel.
U.S. lawmakers have change into more and more outspoken towards Israel after its army has repeatedly opened hearth on Palestinians at meals distribution websites.
“Look, Israel had a proper, in fact, to defend itself from the horrible terrorist assault from Hamas, however what they’ve carried out since then is gone to conflict towards all the Palestinian individuals,” mentioned Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a Sunday interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Sanders, who’s Jewish, criticized Netanyahu’s determination to “impose a blockade, stopping meals to come back in.”