United States: Donald Trump invites Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on February 4

Benjamin Netanyahu was invited to the White House on February 4 by US President Donald Trump, the office of the Israeli Prime Minister said on Tuesday, January 28.

“The President of the United States, Donald Trump, invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a White House meeting on Tuesday, February 4. Prime Minister Netanyahu is the first foreign leader invited to the White House during the second term of the American president Trump, “a statement from the office of the Israeli Prime Minister.

“He’s going to come here”

Donald Trump had reiterated his desire to see the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip on Monday, on Monday without violence “and indicated that he would talk about it” soon “with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. “I’m going to talk to (Benjamin Netanyahu) in the not too far future. He will come here, “he said without giving a date, but indicating that it would be” very soon “.

Almost all of the 2.4 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip were moved by the war caused by the bloody attack of Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023. A ceasefire must last six weeks and allow The release of 33 hostages retained in Gaza against some 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.

During this first phase must be negotiated the terms of the second, aimed at the release of the last hostages and the final end of the war. The last step should relate to the reconstruction of Gaza and the restitution of the bodies of the last hostages dead in captivity.

The previous government of President Joe Biden has drawn up a series of post-war plans in Gaza, but President Trump has not mentioned it so far, and leaves doubt about the creation of A Palestinian state.