Arab States Accuse Israel of Wrecking Gaza Plan
Three Arab states — the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Saudi Arabia — accused Israel of undermining President Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza, after Mr Netanyahu said Israel had not agreed to its terms for disarming Hamas. The Israeli military chief, meanwhile, visited Gaza and vowed the army would keep “operating proactively”. Hamas held a mass funeral for scores of people it said had been recovered from the rubble of an earlier strike.
The public rebuke from key regional players deepened Israel’s isolation over a framework Mr Trump has claimed it supports, and exposed the strain the plan has placed even on states friendly to Washington. Israel’s insistence on full disarmament before any withdrawal, and its continued operations, have hardened Arab suspicion that it is stalling. Hamas, for its part, will not give up its weapons without a firm timetable for a pullout. The mass funeral, one of the largest since the war began, was a grim reminder of the human cost beneath the diplomacy. Watch whether Washington leans on Israel or the plan falls apart.