Netanyahu to meet with Trump at the White House next week as the Iran war escalates | Donald Trump News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House next Tuesday, the PM’s office said.

He added that the meeting coincided with Netanyahu’s visit to the Senator’s funeral Lindsey Graham. The Republican, who was one of Israel’s biggest supporters in Washington, died suddenly last week.

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“At the invitation of President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will leave for Washington on Monday for a visit,” he said.

“As part of the visit, the Prime Minister will meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday and attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham.”

The trip will be Netanyahu’s the seventh in the White House in Trump’s second term, more than any other world leader and emphasized the administration’s commitment to Israel.

This comes as the US-Israel conflict with Iran has escalated again after the breakdown earlier this month of a ceasefire reached as part of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the US and Iran.

Israel opposed the MoU, with its ongoing military operations in Lebanon repeatedly threatening to disrupt diplomatic elections. The Trump administration has been overseeing talks between Lebanon and Israel aimed at ending the conflict that does not include Hezbollah.

Both Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a plan to turn over areas occupied by Israel to the Lebanese army, although the facts have not changed since March. During a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun earlier this week, Trump did not give a time frame for Israel’s withdrawal.

Also on Friday, US Central Command said its forces had completed their 13th consecutive strike against Iran. Iran has retaliated daily against U.S. assets in the region, killing three U.S. soldiers in a strike on a base in Jordan last week.

Washington has also shifted military supplies to Israel, which some analysts see as a sign of a major escalation that is imminent.

The visit comes as Israel’s war in Gaza continues, with the Israeli army continuing to issue evacuation orders. near daily attacksdespite the US-backed “ceasefire” that began last October.

A study by UN agencies found that about 1.4 million people, representing 67 percent of Gaza’s population, still face “problems or severe food insecurity”.

All told, at least 73,311 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, according to health officials, including 1,185 since the “ceasefire” began.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli attacks have taken place again to climband four Palestinians who were killed on Friday in an attack by Israeli forces and residents southwest of Nablus, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement.

Israeli health officials reported that an Israeli resident was killed and others were injured in the area.

At least 86 Palestinians have been killed by Israel across the occupied West Bank since the beginning of the year, including 21 shot dead by residents.

Threats of arrest

The US visit comes as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has done so called the authorities to arrest Netanyahu, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges related to the violence in Gaza.

Mamdani previously threatened to use the New York Police Department to arrest Netanyahu, but admitted earlier this week that he did not have “such authority”. Netanyahu is expected to travel to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly in September.

The US is not a signatory to the ICC’s founding document, the Rome Statute, and therefore cannot agree to the court’s jurisdiction. The Trump administration has also taken an offensive line against the court, vowing that “the entire government” has been ordering ICC officials and groups that support its investigation.

Trump has rejected the prospect of Netanyahu being arrested while in the US.

“Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America,” he wrote on Truth Social on Monday.

Instead he praised Israel’s role in the war against Iran. The US Congress is also considering a defense budget that will see the US and Israel join forces, in a major expansion of the relationship.

But public opinion polls have shown that Israel’s support for the US has declined amid the war in Gaza.

Recently, several right-wing figures have done so was called that Israel dragged the US into war with Iran. The conflict has continued for five months without an end.