What’s on the agenda for the Trump-Netanyahu meeting?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu landed in Washington on Sunday to become the first foreign leader to visit US President Donald Trump since his return to the White House.

Trump and his Middle East envoy Steven Witkoff have been credited with bringing the ceasefire in Gaza to fruition thanks to pressure on Netanyahu to accept the deal that was later revealed to have been on the table since December 2023.

Netanyahu is expected to meet with Witkoff on Monday, along with advisors to the president, before his Oval Office visit on Tuesday. He is reportedly spending the entire week in Washington before returning home on Saturday.

The trip comes as phase 1 of the ceasefire rolls out in Gaza, with weekly prisoner swaps that by 1 March should see 33 Israeli captives released from Gaza in return for just under 2,000 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons, many of whom have never been charged.

Netanyahu, whose government is comprised of influential, far-right elements - has long maintained that Israeli forces have “the right to return to fighting” after Hamas releases all the captives it has held since the 7 October 2023 attacks on southern Israel.

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