In recent days the news media has been reporting on a 21-point peace plan for Gaza from the Trump administration. Earlier today, Donald Trump’s spokesperson said that “Ambassador Witkoff, special envoy Witkoff,sent a very detailed 21-point plan to both sides.” Later in the day, the White House released a 20-point plan. They did that in an odd way, through an X post from the account of the Official White House Rapid Response. So what happened to one of the points? News media coverage looks to have largely ignored the obvious discrepancy, so we investigated.
On Saturday, The Times of Israel claimed to have revealed the 21-point plan. Comparing that to plan released by the White House today, most of the points were largely the same. (There were some minor differences, for example, the timeline for releasing hostages went from 48 to 72 hours.) That would suggest that The Times of Israel reveal was real.
There was one point that was in the 21 -point plan that was missing in the 20-point plan:
Israel agrees not to carry out future strikes in Qatar. The US and the international community acknowledge Doha’s important mediating role in the Gaza conflict.
Presumably that was addressed by the call with Qatar’s leader during the Donald Trump’s meeting today with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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