Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his support for US President Donald Trump’s proposal aimed at resolving Israel’s almost two-year conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

Netanyahu stated at the White House on Monday, “I believe today is crucial for both concluding the Gaza war and significantly advancing peace in the Middle East.”

Israel’s agreement to this plan would represent a significant advancement in resolving a conflict that has severely impacted Gaza, caused a great loss of life, sparked regional unrest, and increased Israel’s isolation.

Speaking alongside the Israeli leader, Trump said peace would be his “crowning achievement”.

The proposal outlines that Trump would lead an international oversight group, referred to as the Board of Peace, to supervise a Palestinian committee tasked with managing Gaza.

This committee, a non-political and expert-led group of Palestinians, would oversee Gaza, while Trump’s international body would handle its supervision. The board would also include international figures such as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Trump expressed gratitude to Netanyahu for “accepting the plan and believing that through our collaboration, we can put an end to the years of violence and devastation.”

It was not immediately clear whether Hamas would accept the proposal. An official briefed on talks said Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence chief met negotiators from the militant group in Doha and shared the plan. The negotiators said they would review it in good faith and provide a response, the official said.

Trump said it was “always a possibility” Hamas could reject the deal, but that would leave the militant group alone because “everyone else has accepted it”.

He added he would give Israel his “full backing” to eliminate Hamas if the group does not agree the plan.

Trump and Netanyahu declined to answer any further questions until there were “signatures and approvals from a lot of different countries involved in this”.

The plan calls for an immediate end to the conflict and for all the remaining hostages held in Gaza to be released within 72 hours of Israel “publicly” accepting the deal.

Hamas, which triggered the war with its October 7 2023 attack on Israel, would have no role in the governance of Gaza, its fighters would be disarmed and its members would be granted amnesty if they “commit to peaceful coexistence and to decommission their weapons”.

Members of the militant group who chose to leave the enclave would also be assured of “safe passage” to receiving countries.

The plan states no one would be forced to leave Gaza, with Trump departing from his earlier plan to empty the strip of Palestinians and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Israel would release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences, as well as 1,700 Gazans who were detained after the October 7 2023 attack once all the Israeli hostages were freed.

There would be a massive surge of aid into the strip, parts of which are enduring famine, according to UN agencies, while a “Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energise Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts”.

The plan envisages a future role for the Palestinian Authority, which administers limited parts of the occupied West Bank, in running Gaza once it is reformed. It also said Trump’s international supervisory board would handle the funding for the redevelopment of Gaza until such time as the PA “has completed its reform programme”.

It also nods to Palestinian aspirations for a state, saying that with Gaza’s redevelopment and a PA reform programme, “the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood”.

Trump last week presented the plan, which his son-in-law Jared Kushner was heavily involved in drafting, to Arab and Muslim leaders, who warmly welcomed the proposals. However, they wanted to see a greater role for the PA.

Netanyahu is likely to face an intense backlash from far-right allies in his governing coalition who have repeatedly rejected any permanent end to war before Hamas’s complete defeat at the hands of the Israeli military.

They — and Netanyahu — have also said the PA must have no role in Gaza and have vociferously rejected any moves towards the establishment of a Palestinian state. 

Any backlash risks unravelling the prime minister’s coalition and forcing him into early elections.

Netanyahu said Gaza would be demilitarised and Israel would retain security responsibility, including a security perimeter “for the foreseeable future”.

He warned that if Hamas rejected the US proposal, or “if they supposedly accept it and then basically do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself”.

Challenges exist in implementing the agreement, and previous attempts to secure a permanent ceasefire have collapsed. Details about how Hamas would be disarmed are vague, while Israel insists it would maintain overall security control of the strip and freedom of operations inside the territory.

It is also unclear how quickly the stabilisation force will be formed, or which nations would be willing to provide troops with the risks of them being drawn into an insurgency.

Arab and Muslim nations are expected to contribute to the force, with Indonesia already saying it would be willing, while the United Arab Emirates has previously hinted it could also contribute.

Emmanuel Macron, president of France, has also said his country would participate, without clarifying in what form that would take.