Trump: We have not reached full agreement with Netanyahu regarding the West Bank

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he had not reached "full agreement" with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the occupied West Bank.

This came during a joint press conference held by Trump with Netanyahu at the White House following a meeting between them.

In his speech at the press conference, Trump said: "I discussed the West Bank issue with Netanyahu, but we did not agree 100 percent."

In response to a question whether the Palestinian Authority would be part of Gaza in the "day after," Netanyahu replied: "We will see if they carry out reforms. It depends on them."

He continued: "I believe that President Trump has clarified the required reforms from the Palestinian Authority to participate in Gaza reconstruction plans."

Contrary to these statements, Netanyahu had previously emphasized in more than one occasion his rejection of the Palestinian Authority taking any role in Gaza after the war.

Netanyahu praised the US President, saying: "We have never had a close friend like you."

He added: "I think he is exceptional in his friendship and support for Israel. The President has broken many norms, and therefore we decided to award him the Israel Prize (Israel's highest award)."

Regarding Syria, the Israeli Prime Minister said that interest requires having "peace borders" with Syria, and did not rule out the Palestinian Authority being a partner in the "day after" in Gaza, contradicting his previous statements.

Netanyahu continued: "The interest is to have peace borders with Syria."

He added: "We want to ensure these borders are safe, without terrorists, and protect our Druze friends and minorities in Syria."

President Trump responded: "This will work between Israel and Syria."

Israel has occupied the Golan since 1967, then expanded after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime into the buffer zone and Mount Hermon south of Syria, and announced the collapse of the ceasefire agreement signed between the two sides since 1967.

In recent months, Syrian-Israeli talks have been held to reach a security agreement that stops Tel Aviv's attacks on Damascus, but the agreement has not materialized due to Israel's insistence on not withdrawing from the areas it occupied after Assad's fall on December 8, 2024.

Despite US President Donald Trump's call for Israel to calm down with Syria, Tel Aviv continued its violations of Damascus's sovereignty through bombings and incursions that have become almost daily in recent times.

Earlier in the evening of Monday, Trump received the Israeli Prime Minister at Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, shortly after Netanyahu's meeting with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio along with Trump's advisors Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Netanyahu also met shortly before his meeting with Trump with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

On Sunday evening, Netanyahu arrived in Florida on a visit announced by his office to last 5 days.

In recent days, Hebrew media reported that Netanyahu and Trump's discussions are expected to focus on the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, in addition to issues related to Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.

The Israeli Army Radio reported earlier in the evening of Monday that Trump may not make the return of the body of the Israeli policeman held in Gaza, Ran Guili, a condition for moving to the second phase.

Israel conditions the start of negotiations to launch the second phase of the agreement on receiving the body of the last prisoner in Gaza, Ran Gvili, while Hamas confirms that it may take time to extract it due to the massive destruction in Gaza.

On Wednesday, the Hebrew Channel 12 reported that Washington informed Israel and the mediators that the second phase of Trump's plan for a ceasefire in Gaza will begin early January 2025.

It is recalled that on September 29, Trump announced a peace plan and ceasefire in Gaza consisting of 20 points, including: the release of Israeli prisoners, ceasefire, disarmament of Hamas, Israel's withdrawal from the sector, formation of a technocratic government, and deployment of an international stabilization force.

On October 10, the first phase of the ceasefire agreement came into effect, while Israel violated some of its provisions and delayed moving to the second phase, citing the remaining soldier in captivity in Gaza, despite Palestinian factions continuing their search for him amid the massive destruction caused by the Israeli genocide.

The agreement was supposed to end a genocide committed by Tel Aviv over two years starting from October 8, 2023, which resulted in about 71,000 Palestinian deaths and more than 171,000 injuries, mostly children and women, but Israel continues its violations and suffocating siege on the sector to this day.