Gaza City: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, August 4, that Israel will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed and pushed back on a recent deal announced by US President Donald Trump.

Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected pleas by Donald Trump’s Gaza peace envoy to stop bombing the enclave. Nickolay Mladenov, representing Mr Trump’s Board of Peace, held a tense meeting with the Israeli prime minister on Monday after the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) killed dozens of Palestinians in air strikes over the weekend.

"Jewish community and Israel are not the same thing, brother man. They're not – that is not the same thing," Stewart, who is Jewish, said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has yet to agree to the latest US-backed ceasefire proposal for Gaza, casting fresh doubt on the prospects of ending the three-year conflict. This, after US President Donald Trump announced the deal last week,