Level 2
Gaza can be redeveloped for the good thing about the individuals of Gaza, who’ve suffered greater than sufficient.
A imprecise level however essential on condition that the primary time Trump and Netanyahu stood collectively within the White Home this yr the president steered displacing the inhabitants and redeveloping the Gaza Strip right into a wealthy man’s paradise.
Displaced Palestinians stroll by way of a makeshift camp alongside the seashore in Gaza Metropolis.Credit score: AP
Level 3
If either side conform to this proposal, the warfare will instantly finish. Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line to organize for a hostage launch. Throughout this time, all navy operations, together with aerial and artillery bombardment, can be suspended, and battle strains will stay frozen till circumstances are met for the whole staged withdrawal.
Withdrawal strains have been sticking factors in earlier negotiations.
Nonetheless, these set out within the map launched by the White Home on Monday had been presumably tempting for Hamas to just accept, as they might oblige the IDF to withdraw from Gaza Metropolis and different key strongholds, the place Hamas was below heavy assault.
Level 4
Inside 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this settlement, all hostages, alive and deceased, can be returned.
This displays the modified considering in Israeli and US corridors of energy for the reason that earlier spherical of negotiations broke down in July. Specifically, {that a} additional programme of staged hostage releases merely wouldn’t fly.
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s diplomatic envoy, tried to reheat the January-February ceasefire deal many instances, in any case, with out success.
Einav Zangauker (blue jacket), the mom of hostage Matan Zangauker, celebrates the information of the deal.Credit score: Getty Photographs
An settlement to trade hostages and Palestinian prisoners was reached on October 9.
Level 5
As soon as all hostages are launched, Israel will launch 250 life-sentence prisoners plus 1700 Gazans who had been detained after October 7, 2023, together with all girls and kids detained in that context. For each Israeli hostage whose stays are launched, Israel will launch the stays of 15 deceased Gazans.
Though it’s a massive quantity already, there have been fears Hamas may delay a deal by arguing for extra.
Finally, nevertheless, there wouldn’t be a deal with out this.
Palestinian Raed al-Saadi, 57, proper, and different prisoners are greeted by a crowd after being launched from an Israeli jail following a ceasefire settlement in January.Credit score: AP
Level 6
As soon as all hostages are returned, Hamas members who decide to peaceable co-existence and to decommission their weapons can be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who want to depart Gaza can be supplied protected passage to receiving nations.
Netanyahu beforehand provided exile to Hamas members, saying in March that “Hamas leaders can be allowed to go away Gaza”.
However his promise was made in relation to Trump’s plan for “voluntary migration” of Gazans and Israel has killed all however one in every of Hamas’s senior management in Gaza.
Israel killed a string of Hamas leaders, together with Yahya Sinwar (pictured).Credit score: AP
Level 7
Upon acceptance of this settlement, full assist can be instantly despatched into the Gaza Strip. At a minimal, assist portions can be in step with what was included within the Jan 19, 2025, settlement concerning humanitarian assist, together with rehabilitation of infrastructure (water, electrical energy, sewage), rehabilitation of hospitals and bakeries, and entry of vital tools to take away rubble and open roads.
Level 8
Entry of distribution and assist within the Gaza Strip will proceed with out interference from the 2 events by way of the United Nations and its businesses, and the Crimson Crescent, along with different worldwide establishments not related in any method with both occasion. Opening the Rafah crossing in each instructions can be topic to the identical mechanism carried out below the Jan 19, 2025, settlement.
Israel must permit assist to enter the Strip, as the remainder of the plan can be largely pointless if the individuals of Gaza proceed to go hungry.
No matter they signal as much as, Israel is aware of that it’s going to retain management over the influx of assist and may impose restrictions on the Jordanian and Egyptian borders, or entry factors to Gaza.
Nonetheless, the plan doesn’t recommend which nations can be answerable for the rehabilitation of important infrastructure.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied Israel was appearing out a “hunger coverage”.Credit score: AP
Level 9
Gaza can be ruled below the short-term, transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, chargeable for delivering the day-to-day operating of public companies and municipalities for the individuals in Gaza. This committee can be made up of certified Palestinians and worldwide specialists, with oversight and supervision by a brand new worldwide transitional physique, the “Board of Peace”, which can be headed and chaired by President Donald J Trump, with different members and heads of State to be introduced, together with former prime minister Tony Blair. This physique will set the framework and deal with the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza till such time because the Palestinian Authority has accomplished its reform program, as outlined in varied proposals, together with president Trump’s peace plan in 2020 and the Saudi-French proposal, and may securely and successfully take again management of Gaza. This physique will name on finest worldwide requirements to create fashionable and environment friendly governance that serves the individuals of Gaza and is conducive to attracting funding.
That is arguably the bitterest capsule Netanyahu has to swallow – the long-term potential of Palestinian Authority management of the Strip, nevertheless imprecise.
Trump acknowledged that within the press convention. However this, it appears, a worth the Arab companions demanded, and it’s one Trump was decided that he paid.
At one time, the concept of Gaza being run by the US president together with former British prime minister Tony Blair might need been mistaken as a very dangerous joke however we’re in a brand new actuality.
Then British Prime Minister Tony Blair with then-Palestinian chief Yasser Arafat for talks in 1998. Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been in London to interrupt an earlier stalemate.Credit score: AP
Certainly, it’s Trump’s direct oversight of the post-war transition course of – stopping Israel dragging its heels on navy withdrawal – which may be a key issue securing Arab and certainly Hamas assist.
Level 10
A Trump financial growth plan to rebuild and energise Gaza can be created by convening a panel of specialists who’ve helped delivery among the thriving fashionable miracle cities within the Center East. Many considerate funding proposals and thrilling growth concepts have been crafted by well-meaning worldwide teams, and can be thought-about to synthesise the safety and governance frameworks to draw and facilitate these investments that may create jobs, alternative, and hope for future Gaza.
Level 11
A particular financial zone can be established with most popular tariff and entry charges to be negotiated with taking part nations.
It wouldn’t be a Trump plan if there wasn’t sturdy financial incentives.
The listing of nations ready to donate billions of kilos to reconstruct Gaza is lengthy, making this level the least contentious. Arab Gulf nations such because the UAE and Saudi Arabia have already pledged to donate, whereas European nations will do the identical.
Buying and selling is trickier as Israel will most likely insist on controlling all items getting into Gaza till it’s positive that Hamas is not lively within the enclave however will probably be thought-about in Israel’s pursuits, by its moderates, to see Gaza prosper economically as soon as a transitional authorities manages to uproot Hamas and take full management of the Strip.
Level 12
Nobody can be compelled to go away Gaza, and those that want to depart can be free to take action and free to return. We are going to encourage individuals to remain and supply them the chance to construct a greater Gaza.
It’s nearly as if Trump’s February “Middle East Riviera” press convention by no means occurred.
Components in Israel had already begun planning the place the primary Jewish settlements could be located in Gaza. What function the UN will play in serving to run the post-war Gazan society is an open query.
Israel detests UNRWA, which has acted as a proxy civil service for many years, however a handful of whose members took half within the assault on October 7. Trump additionally labelled them “corrupt”.
As for the Palestinians who need to depart Gaza, an important query stays unanswered: which nations will take them in?
Level 13
Hamas and different factions conform to not have any function within the governance of Gaza, instantly, not directly, or in any type. All navy, terror, and offensive infrastructure, together with tunnels and weapon manufacturing services, can be destroyed and never rebuilt. There can be a strategy of demilitarisation of Gaza below the supervision of unbiased screens, which can embody inserting weapons completely past use by way of an agreed strategy of decommissioning, and supported by an internationally funded purchase again and reintegration program all verified by the unbiased screens. New Gaza can be absolutely dedicated to constructing a affluent economic system and to peaceable coexistence with their neighbours.
This was the technical grist on the pathway to peace. The unbiased screens are key right here, as in any other case Israel may very well be tempted – maybe below stress from the ultranationalist coalition members – to gradual the method by unilaterally deciding {that a} sure district or space has not demilitarised.
Nonetheless, it’s nonetheless possible that Israel will retain a specific amount of management over Gaza with this course of. It’s in the end their safety at stake, in any case.
Level 14
A assure can be supplied by regional companions to make sure that Hamas, and the factions, adjust to their obligations and that New Gaza poses no risk to its neighbours or its individuals.
Level 15
America will work with Arab and worldwide companions to develop a short lived Worldwide Stabilisation Power (ISF) to instantly deploy in Gaza. The ISF will prepare and supply assist to vetted Palestinian police forces in Gaza, and can seek the advice of Jordan and Egypt who’ve in depth expertise on this subject. This power would be the long-term inner safety resolution. The ISF will work with Israel and Egypt to assist safe border areas, together with newly educated Palestinian police forces. It’s important to stop munitions from getting into Gaza and to facilitate the fast and safe move of products to rebuild and revitalise Gaza. A deconfliction mechanism can be agreed upon by the events.
A deconfliction mechanism can be agreed upon by the events. This can be one of many harder parts for Netanyahu to promote at house.
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What began with the October 7 bloodbath, ending with, probably, Arab boots on the bottom in Israel’s yard is not going to go down properly with everybody.
Nonetheless, it does imply that the exhausted IDF doesn’t have to stay in Gaza completely, an enormous aid to each the younger women and men of Israel, who’re referred to as to serve on the entrance line, and its commanders.
No strategy of deradicalisation and demilitarisation is ever completely profitable, so the power of this new policing mannequin can be essential. Rather a lot can be decided by the long-term dedication of out of doors nations to make it work.
Level 16
Israel is not going to occupy or annex Gaza. Because the ISF establishes management and stability, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) will withdraw primarily based on requirements, milestones, and timeframes linked to demilitarisation that can be agreed upon between the IDF, ISF, the guarantors, and the USA, with the target of a safe Gaza that not poses a risk to Israel, Egypt, or its residents. Virtually, the IDF will progressively hand over the Gaza territory it occupies to the ISF in response to an settlement they are going to make with the transitional authority till they’re withdrawn fully from Gaza, save for a safety perimeter presence that may stay till Gaza is correctly safe from any resurgent terror risk.
The desires of Netanyahu’s coalition companions are explicitly dashed right here. However it may very well be an extended course of.
It isn’t not possible that this collapses the governing coalition, prompting elections the place alterations to the deal may very well be on the agenda. However it provides Netanyahu a simple approach out of a significant headache that will see Israel in violation of worldwide regulation whereas being chargeable for the lives of two million Palestinians.
Smoke rises after explosions within the Gaza Strip as seen from a place on the Israeli facet of the border on August 31.Credit score: Getty Photographs
An occupation of Gaza would value Israel billions of kilos each month to maintain, whereas placing huge stress on an already exhausted military.
Israel was anticipated to insist on being the one deciding when to declare “terror-free” areas. However there are query marks over the timeframe for handing over accountability to the worldwide power and whether or not the power is able to combat Hamas if it resurfaces within the “terror-free zone”.
On the plus facet, from Israel’s standpoint, the IDF will maintain the safety perimeter it claimed since October 7.
Level 17
Within the occasion Hamas delays or rejects this proposal, the above, together with the scaled-up assist operation, will proceed within the terror-free areas handed over from the IDF to the ISF.
This denies native Hamas leaders of derailing the entire course of. Nonetheless, the prospect of disarmament, deradicalisation and IDF withdrawal going down efficiently in a single space whereas combating continues in one other appears exhausting to ponder.
Gaza shouldn’t be a big space, in any case. However this clause illustrates the dedication of the White Home to drive the method ahead.
Level 18
An interfaith dialogue course of can be established primarily based on the values of tolerance and peaceable co-existence to attempt to change mindsets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasising the advantages that may be derived from peace.
Who may argue with this? Besides maybe the Israelis and the Palestinians, the previous nonetheless deeply wounded from October 7, the latter having endured what they see as a genocide.
Level 19
Whereas Gaza re-development advances and when the PA reform program is faithfully carried out, the circumstances could lastly be in place for a reputable pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood, which we recognise because the aspiration of the Palestinian individuals.
This nearly instantly displays the language the Saudi Arabia et al have spoken for years as their worth for recognising Israel. It’s a large coup for the Palestinian Authority (even when they aren’t named on this specific clause). And an enormous blow for Netanyahu, who has constructed his profession on stopping Palestinian statehood. Nonetheless, a “credible pathway” is a great distance from a state.
Level 20
America will set up a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a political horizon for peaceable and affluent co-existence.
That is extraordinarily imprecise and, it may very well be argued, coated off by earlier extra concrete factors. However a laudable purpose, nonetheless, significantly after the polarisation of the final two years.
The Telegraph, London
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