{"id":41865,"date":"2025-05-05T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41865"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T03:04:11","slug":"axios-trump-is-not-actively-promoting-a-ceasefire-in-the-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=41865","title":{"rendered":"Axios: Trump is not actively promoting a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Barak Ravid, a reporter for the American news website Axios, quoted Israeli officials as saying that US President Trump is not playing an active role in promoting a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, and he &#8220;allowed&#8221; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to act independently.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250403\/1064821139.html\">Trump<\/a>&nbsp;is not playing an active role in the current efforts to achieve a ceasefire (in the Gaza Strip &#8211; Editor&#8217;s note), and he is allowing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act independently,&#8221; some Israeli officials who wish to remain anonymous told Ravid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The officials told reporters that Israel has set Trump&#8217;s Middle East trip next week as the deadline for exchanging Hamas hostages and reaching a new ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. Barak Ravid said that if Israel and Hamas cannot reach an agreement, then the Israeli authorities will launch a large-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Axios also cited Israeli and US officials as saying that Trump does not plan to visit Israel during his Middle East trip, during which he is expected to focus on &#8220;bilateral issues&#8221; and investment matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250506\/1065331489.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barak Ravid, a reporter for the American news website Axios, quoted Israeli officials as saying that US President Trump is not playing an active role in promoting a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, and he &#8220;allowed&#8221; Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to act independently. &#8221;&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;is not playing an active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":41866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[25492,21960,1230],"class_list":["post-41865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-axios","tag-promoting","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41868,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41865\/revisions\/41868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}