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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Belam

First Thing: Netanyahu rejects US-backed 15-point Gaza peace plan

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a podium in front of a blue curtain and Israeli flag
Netanyahu said he was confronting a ‘wave of rumours about Israeli weakness’. Photograph: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Good morning.

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

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