“We hope it is the end of the war because two years are already many,” he tells Eldiario.es Sharon Sagi, a Tel Aviv taxi driver while passing under a bridge where a great announcement with Trump's faces and Netanyahu says: “We support Trump's plan.” Other homemade banners hang on some balcony and ask for the end of the war, although most of the messages that can be read in the streets refer to Israeli hostages that remain in Gaza: 48 in total, of which only 20 are still alive, according to the authorities. The surveys indicate that most of the population supports an agreement that ends the war and brings back to the kidnapped.
In Israel, uncertainty and distrust of the 20 -point plan presented on Monday by Trump and Netanyahu to finish the war in Gaza they mix with hope. “We are waiting for Hamas's response, we don't know (what will be),” continues the middle -aged man, whose daughter has just finished mandatory military service, but was not in Gaza. Even so, he affirms that he was afraid for her and that he wants this war to end. He is confident that Netanyahu will fulfill his commitment because, he says, “Trump is the head of Israel.” Two years of conflict have tensed the society and economy of the Hebrew country, which begins to feel international isolation for genocide in the strip, where the army has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians since October 2023, in addition to causing a famine.
The plan presented by President Donald Trump on Monday in Washington could open the door at the end of the war in Gaza, when less than a week is missing for two years of the brutal offensive of Israeli punishment for the attacks of October 7. Netanyahu has accepted the plan, but has already rejected one of the 20 points of the Trump road map: the future creation of a Palestinian state – an objective marked by the international community, which Trump himself has not been able to ignore completely.
Both leaders and allies have put the ball on the roof of the Palestinian Group Hamás, which is studying whether or not the proposal implies its disarmament and its departure from Gaza, where it has ruled since 2007. It is planned that the Islamist movement offer an answer this Wednesday to the Arab mediators, Qatar and Egypt, who work to counterreloj together with Turkey, which has joined the countries of the region that has joined the countries of the region. They support Trump's plan because it seems the only opportunity to end the genocide in Gaza, although there are many questions about it.
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Qatar, Majed Al Ansari, has confirmed on Tuesday that Hamas representatives received the full text of the US Plan on Monday night and promised to examine it “with responsibility”. Meanwhile, the Catarí Prime Minister, Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani – who has been very involved in the negotiations in the past two years – has said in an interview with the television chain to the jazeera that “the withdrawal of the Israeli forces of Gaza requires clarification and must be discussed”, being one of the most delicate points because Israel has rejected withdraws from the strip so far ( Troops control 80% of the Palestinian enclave).
Uncertainty and distrust
The Israeli prime minister has boycott all the opportunities to reach a high fire agreement with Hamas in the past months -the last of them, bombarding some of Hamas's negotiators in Doha. The fact that Netanyahu has apologized to the Emir Catarí with Trump for that attack in his territory does not make it a reliable partner for Qatar or for the Palestinians, and also at home many distrust him.
From the forum of the families of the hostages and the disappeared they have expressed a “cautious hope” with respect to the plan announced Monday to end the war and bring back both the kidnapped living and the corpses of the deceased. The group has been tirelessly mobilized in the past weeks for Netanyahu to accept negotiating an agreement for the release of their loved ones and has repeatedly praised Trump's intermediation.
Thousands of people have manifested Tuesday night in Tel Aviv to demand Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza, according to the newspaper Haaretz. Some protesters have entered the offices of the Prime Minister (Likud) party in the city center and have hung a banner in which they ask: “It ends with the war already, damn it!”
The plan is not detailed now and still needs a lot of work. Netanyahu will try to add several conditions so that the agreement is rejecting
Professor at the University of Bar-Ilan in Israel
Will Netanyahu fulfill your commitment?
“Natanyahu has already shown that he can kill any agreement. The plan is not detailed now and needs a lot of work yet. Netanyahu will try to add several conditions so that Hamas rejects the agreement,” says Eldiario.es Ilana Shpaizam, head of the Department of Political Sciences of the Israeli University of Bar-Ilaan. “The agreement was imposed by Trump, so now it is up to Trump and his team not to be shown by Netanyahu as he has done in the past two years,” he adds.
The teacher is convinced that the Israeli government will not support the creation of a Palestinian State. “It is written in the agreement very vaguely so the government can accept it without meaning anything,” he says and, in addition, “he can always claim that the Palestinian authority has not carried out the necessary reforms” (as established by the text presented by Trump).
Regarding tensions with the ultra -nationalist government partners of Netanyahu – who have so far opposed an agreement and threatened to make the government fall when the fire with Hamas in January 2025 – Shpaizam does not believe that the ruling coalition can collapse due to Trump's plan.
One of the most ultras ministers, who was already preparing his own real estate business on Gaza's escrombros, is that of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who has described the acceptance of the plan by Netanyahu as “resounding diplomatic failure” and “leadership tragedy that flees from the hard reality.”
In statements collected by the newspaper The Jerusalem Post, The minister has described the plan as “an act of deliberate blindness that ignores all the lessons of October 7.” “In my opinion, it will end in tears,” he said. Even so, he has not threatened to leave the government coalition.
The professor at the University of Bar -ila believes that Smotrich does not want to leave the Executive, in which Netanyahu has given her several positions and broad powers, including the supervision of settlements in the occupied West Bank. “Smotrich is doing a lot of work with settlements in the West Bank and that is the most important thing for him, so the government will not leave so quickly,” says Shpaizam.
Netanyahu has returned this Tuesday night to Israel and now he will have to face the internal tensions in his executive, who has held a meeting in his absence. Another of the ultras ministers, the national security, Itamar Ben Gvir, has said at the meeting that Trump's plan is “dangerous for Israel's security,” according to Haaretz.
Beyond Gaza
Smotrich himself is a settler and recently presented a plan for the annexation of more than 80% of the West Bank, where Israel already occupies militarily and de facto governs most of the territory that would be the nucleus of a hypothetical Palestinian state, with its capital in East Jerusalem (according to UN resolutions on which Trump does not base its plan).
It is clear that no one in the government will change their agenda, quite the opposite, they will continue to destroy the possibility of the two states
Executive Director of Peace Now
Lior Amihai, executive director of the Israeli organization Peace Now, believes that many details of the Trump plan are still unknown, especially in regard to the future of the Palestinians, although the plan includes a “vision towards a Palestinian state.” He tells Eldiario.es that this mention is “dangerous” and warns that in 2020, during his first term, Trump included in his plans a “Palestinian state that was actually an annexation plan.”
In addition, he says that the US imposes many conditions on the Palestinians to have their state but “there is no limit to Israel's policies, as if that were not a problem.” Amihai recalls that the Netanyahu government has been the one that has expanded the most with occupied territory and has taken all kinds of measures to prevent a viable Palestinian state. “It is clear that no one in the government will change their agenda, quite the opposite, (the ministers) think they have to take advantage of time while Trump is in power. They will continue to destroy the possibility of the two states.”
In his plan, the US says that “it will establish a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon that allows a peaceful and prosperous coexistence”, not specifically mentioning the solution of the two states, which is why it bets the vast majority of the international community, as it was evident in the General Assembly of the United Nations last week.
The director of Peace Now is optimistic only in the short term: “Maybe we are closer to the end of the war and the return of the hostages and the end of the suffering of the Palestinians, which is good. But I do not think we are closer to a Palestinian state.”