Israeli Press
Israel's papers lead with a Gaza roadmap their government refuses to sign
Graphic: Times of Palestine
Original Reporting
One story owns Israel's front pages Thursday: the Gaza disarmament roadmap President Trump announced as historic, and the Israeli government's refusal to accept it as written. Here is how each major outlet plays it.
Ynet, the country's most-read news site, leads with the government's line — "there will be no withdrawal before disarmament" — and pairs it with the deal's fault line: a senior Hamas negotiator telling the site the movement agreed to deposit weapons under a national committee, never to surrender them. Its analysis pages walk the minefields between the two readings.
Haaretz fronts the security cabinet convening at 7 P.M. to weigh Israel's answer. The liberal daily also gives prominent space to the toll of the two-day Qalandiya camp operation and to Israel's refusal to expand its Lebanon withdrawal as the Rome talks closed.
Israel Hayom, the pro-Netanyahu freesheet, keeps the skeptical frame its commentary set this week: Hamas's concession carries major risks, and the movement is rebuilding while the guns pause.
Maariv contributes the day's hardest number — its poll finding 54 percent of Israelis oppose the published roadmap, with 24 percent in support.
Between a deal announced in Washington and a government withholding its signature, the papers agree only on the stakes: what Israel decides next decides whether the war ends.
