Israel Says Trump’s Middle East Visit Is The ‘window Of Opportunity’ For Hostage Deal

A elder Israeli defense charismatic connected Monday said President Donald Trump's upcoming sojourn to nan Middle East is nan "window of opportunity" to unafraid a hostage deal, different Israel will initiate a caller subject cognition successful nan Gaza Strip.

"If location is nary hostage deal, Operation 'Gideon Chariots' will statesman pinch awesome strength and will not extremity until each its goals are achieved," nan charismatic said according to a Reuters report successful reference to a Sunday nighttime determination by Israel’s information furniture to grow operations successful nan Gaza Strip.

Israel will usage nan astir 10-day clip framework to hole for its caller operations, which will entail calling up tens of thousands of reserve troops pinch nan extremity of taking complete each nan Gaza Strip.

 ISRAEL APPROVES PLAN TO CAPTURE ALL OF GAZA, CALLS UP TENS OF THOUSANDS OF RESERVE TROOPS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, pinch Defense Minister Israel Katz. (Israeli PM's Office)

In an evident move to antagonistic nan panic group Hamas, nan Israel Defense Forces will stay successful captured territory alternatively than retreat forces aft an cognition is complete. Israel has not presented a scheme for really agelong it intends to inhabit nan Palestinian lands successful a move that violated U.N.-brokered treaties and internationally recognized borders. 

A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. 

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said successful a connection that nan scheme approved by nan furniture to inhabit territory and prolong Israel's beingness successful Gaza should beryllium named nan "Smotrich-Netanyahu plan" to "give up connected nan hostages and Israel's information and nationalist resilience." 

In nan statement, nan forum said that this scheme is an admittance by nan authorities that it is choosing territories complete freeing nan hostages and noted that much than 70% of Israelis person opposed subject prioritization complete hostages successful caller polling.

Trump had planned to make his travel to nan Middle East, wherever he will sojourn Saudi Arabia, Qatar and nan United Arab Emirates betwixt May 13 and 16, his first world sojourn since re-entering nan White House, to signify nan value of nan region to nan U.S.

While this will still beryllium a awesome geopolitical visit, his first world travel ended up being his sojourn to Italy for Pope Francis’ funeral, wherever he held adjacent discussions pinch Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

Neither nan White House nor nan State Department instantly responded to Fox News Digital’s questions regarding Israel’s progressively fierce position and really it is impacting hostage and bid woody negotiations. 

PARENTS OF HAMAS HOSTAGES URGE TRUMP TO BE 'TOUGH WITH ENEMIES AND FRIENDS' AMID ISRAELI SIEGE IN GAZA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets pinch then-President-elect Donald Trump's Special Envoy to nan Middle East Steve Witkoff. (Photo by Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Comments made by Netanyahu past week sent ceasefire negotiators reeling aft he, for nan first time, confirmed that returning nan hostages taken by Hamas astir 580 days agone connected Oct. 7, 2023 was not his apical priority.

"We person galore objectives, galore goals successful this war. We want to bring backmost each of our hostages," Netanyahu said. "That is simply a very important goal. In war, location is simply a ultimate objective. And that ultimate nonsubjective is triumph complete our enemies. And that is what we will achieve."

The Israeli premier curate besides connected Saturday justified his progressively fierce operations successful Gaza that person resulted successful nan decease of much than 50,000 successful nan Gaza Strip, according to nan Palestinian Ministry of Health, including more than 15,600 children arsenic of late-March, arsenic "a warfare betwixt civilization and barbarism."

The building belonging to nan Berbag family was destroyed aft an Israeli attack, leaving respective Palestinians, including children, dormant and wounded successful Khan Yunis, Gaza, connected Aug. 2, 2024. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Qatar, which has been heavy progressive successful hostage negotiations and ceasefire efforts, responded successful a Saturday station connected societal media and said nan comments "fall short of nan astir basal standards of governmental and civilized responsibility."

"Portraying nan ongoing aggression against Gaza arsenic a defense of ‘civilization’ echoes nan rhetoric of regimes passim history that person utilized mendacious narratives to warrant crimes against guiltless civilians," said Majed Al Ansari, advisor to Qatar Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Thani and spokesperson for nan overseas ministry. 

Ansari did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s questions. 

Fox News' Yael Rotem-Kuriel contributed to this report.