US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Israel on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir, and Mossad Director David Barnea. Two burning issues are on the agenda.
The first is the increasing instability of the security situation in the Gaza Strip: terrorists emerge from a tunnel, the Israeli army kills dozens of people—including civilians. The CEO of the “Board of Peace,” Nikolai Mladenov, condemns both sides and calls for restraint. The IDF, in turn, explains that Hamas is strengthening and earning enormous sums of money—at the expense of an unusually high number of aid deliveries that Hamas steals. That is precisely why Washington says it is necessary to move to Phase Two.
Israel is enabling the opening of the Rafah border crossing and, for the first time, is also allowing the entry and exit of civilians. This is only the beginning. But decisive...
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