• Netanyahu meeting: President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida later today.
• Gaza peace plan: The meeting comes amid a slow process to move to the second phase of the tenuous US-brokered 20-point ceasefire plan, which went into effect in October.
• Ukraine war talks: Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Trump yesterday amid efforts to end the conflict started by Russia, but the leaders did not announce any major breakthroughs. Trump is expected to have a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin “very soon,” and US and Ukrainian teams could meet again as early as next week to finalize the peace plan.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his fifth US trip since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. His visit comes with a ceasefire deal that ended large-scale fighting between Hamas and Israel in October set to enter a new phase.
Netanyahu was Trump’s first foreign visitor to the Oval Office in February after he began his second presidential term. He gave Trump a gold-plated pager, a reference to Israel’s deadly operation in Lebanon in September 2024, which targeted pagers used by Hezbollah members.
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