Israel rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan, says Netanyahu

In rare public break with Trump, Israel’s prime minister says IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is disarmed

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Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has rejected a US-backed 15-point peace plan for Gaza in a rare public break with Donald Trump.

In a statement on Sunday, Netanyahu said that he was confronting a “wave of rumours about Israeli weakness and Israeli withdrawals on all fronts” and rebuked US pressure to end wars in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran without Israel’s buy-in.