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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday at his Mar-a-Lago estate as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is at risk of falling apart before its second phase begins.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Trump created has mostly held up, but progress recently slowed. Both sides accuse one another of violations, and divisions have emerged among the U.S., Israel and Arab countries about the path forward.

On the front steps of Mar-a-Lago, Trump spoke to reporters alongside Netanyahu and said they would try to get the second phase of the Gaza peace plan started "as quickly as we can."


“Very quickly, as quickly as we can, but there has to be a disarmament, we have to disarm with Hamas,” Trump told CNN while suggesting the reconstruction of Gaza is "going to begin pretty soon."

Netanyahu had nothing but thanks and praise for Trump as he said Israel "is very blessed to have President Trump leading the United States."

"I’ll say it again and again and again. We’ve never had a friend like President Trump in the White House. It’s not even close," the prime minister told reporters.

The second phase involves seeing the rebuilding of a demilitarized Gaza under international supervision by a group chaired by Trump and known as the Board of Peace. The Palestinians would form a “technocratic, apolitical” committee to run daily affairs in Gaza, under Board of Peace supervision.

It further calls for normalized relations between Israel and the Arab world, and a possible pathway to Palestinian independence.
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