Netanyahu secured key edits to Trump plan, slowing and limiting IDF’s Gaza withdrawal

WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was bullish on Monday evening shortly after leaving the White House, where he accepted US President Donald Trump’s plan for ending the war in Gaza.

“Now the whole world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the terms that we created together with Trump, to bring back all the hostages — the living and the dead — while the IDF stays in the majority of the Strip,” Netanyahu said in a video he posted to social media.

“Who would have believed it?!” Netanyahu exclaimed in Hebrew, relishing the terms of Trump’s plan.

Netanyahu was naturally trying to frame the trip positively to his base back home amid headlines from earlier in the day focusing on his apology to Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Thani for Israel’s strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha.