Overview
- Washington Post and Israeli outlets detail a U.S. plan that calls for an immediate halt to fighting, a hostage-for-prisoners exchange within 48 hours, Hamas disarmament, an interim technocratic administration, an international security force, large-scale reconstruction and a pathway toward a future Palestinian state.
- Israeli media report Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants amendments to the U.S. text, as hardline ministers object to ending the war without a decisive defeat of Hamas, and Netanyahu is set to meet President Trump on Monday in Washington.
- Hamas says it has not received the plan and a senior official publicly rejected disarmament and exclusion from Palestinian politics, while the movement castigated Netanyahu’s UN speech and vowed Gaza would not accept imposed control.
- Egypt’s foreign minister says the Palestinian file tops Cairo’s agenda, backs efforts to halt the war and prepare postwar governance and security, and plans a reconstruction conference in Cairo, while U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is expected to travel to Egypt for talks on the proposal.
- At the UN General Assembly, coordinated walkouts greeted Netanyahu’s address, he asserted Israel would finish eliminating Hamas’s remnants and cited 48 hostages held in Gaza with 20 alive, as soaring Gaza casualty figures kept pressure on all sides to reach a cease-fire framework.