Official leading Trump's Gaza ceasefire effort criticizes Israel
Nikolay Mladenov, the official leading President Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan, has criticized Israel's ongoing military strikes. He argues that continued attacks hinder the transition to civilian rule and delay the demilitarization of Hamas.
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The criticism highlights significant friction between the U.S. diplomatic efforts and Israeli military strategy in the ongoing Gaza conflict.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The official in charge of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza criticized Israel on Wednesday for its attacks on the war-battered Palestinian territory and warned that the alternative to the U.S. proposal is the next war.
Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace high representative, insisted to the U.N. Security Council that Trump’s 20-point plan has not stalled and “has moved from the negotiating table to the engineering table.”
The militant group Hamas has agreed to the proposal’s key provision to disarm and turn Gaza over to civilian rule, he said. But Israel’s ongoing strikes since last October’s ceasefire are still killing Palestinians — though much fewer — and Gazans can’t feel that the conflict is ending, he said.
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