Pakistan Criticizes Trump's Plan for Gaza: "Not What We Proposed"

Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, said on Friday that the 20-point plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Israeli war on Gaza "clearly differs" from the draft proposed by a group of majority Muslim countries last month.

Dar explained during a parliamentary session that "the twenty points announced by Trump are not our points… They have been modified in ways we did not propose," noting that some key provisions have changed from the version presented by Arab and Muslim leaders.

Trump revealed last Monday a plan for a ceasefire in Gaza that includes the release of all Israeli detainees, both alive and dead, within 72 hours of the start of the truce, while leaving many details for subsequent negotiations. However, the plan was largely aligned with the Israeli stance, which U.S. reports considered a result of "direct intervention" from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to modify it.

According to Axios, the final version included "substantive changes" demanded by Netanyahu, which angered the Arab and Islamic countries involved in the consultations. The leaders had conditioned Washington for passing the plan: not to annex Israeli territories from the West Bank or Gaza, to halt settlement construction, to protect the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to an urgent increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza.

In return, White House spokesperson Caroline Levitt confirmed on Thursday that Washington "expects" Hamas to accept the plan, noting that Trump will set a "red line" regarding any rejection from the movement.