Without the complete disarmament of Hamas, there will be no reconstruction of Gaza : this is the premise posed by Netanyahu during today's meeting with US envoy Kushner and the Peace Board. " It would be better if Israel did not attack the Strip ," Trump reiterated, while Kushner urged Israel "not to create obstacles to the peace plan."
Meanwhile, with the official collapse of an already precarious truce with Iran, Donald Trump has been unable to hide his frustration over a conflict he himself sparked but is unable to resolve. In an interview with Fox News, the American president lashed out at a US ally, Oman , which has been trying to mediate negotiations with Tehran for weeks: " If they get in the way, we will bomb them to death ," the tycoon threatened, while shortly before, Iran had announced that it had effectively terminated the agreement with Muscat over Hormuz.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei stated that "an agreement regarding the map of the transit route through the Strait has been reached." The official did not provide further details, but previous reports indicated that under the agreement, Hormuz would reopen, and ships would be allowed to enter via a route near Iran and exit near Oman. Baghaei also specified that final details still need to be finalized before a joint statement can be issued.
Hostilities have now passed the six-month mark in a conflict that began in February, when the United States and Israel launched attacks against Iran. At the time, administration officials had assured that the war would be over within four to six weeks. In June, the two sides agreed on a memorandum of understanding, but the agreement quickly collapsed due to disagreements over its wording. Both Trump and Iranian leaders have declared the agreement essentially dead.
With the ceasefire expiring, the US president and his team have promised to impose harsh sanctions against Tehran this week, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stated that the United States is capable of maintaining the naval blockade indefinitely. This implicit admission that Washington does not envision an immediate end to the war.
In the last few hours, drones launched by Iran have targeted the office of the Prime Minister of Kurdistan in Iraq, Masrour Barzani. According to leaks in recent days, Barzani is reportedly acting as a mediator between the Trump administration and the Pasdaran.
(Unioneonline)