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Ahead of today's meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News that at least three disputes remain between the Israeli and U.S. sides on Trump's proposed Gaza ceasefire plan.

When Benjamin Netanyahu lands back in Israel, he will be hit by a wall of opinions. Netanyahu will attend a cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening, and he will be faced by the anger of his two most outspoken ministers - Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

Smotrich announces 'red lines,' apparently clashing with demands of PA, Arab states; settlers fret West Bank annexation fading; hostages' families urge Trump to 'stand firm'

Hamas condemns far-right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s remarks as ‘an official call to exterminate’ Palestinians.

Hamas is a terrorist organization and it is classified as such by the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and the European Union. Therefore, these actors must be coherent, deal with it as such, and back Israel in its war against it, no matter how strong Qatar’s pressures are in the attempt to safeguard what’s left of Hamas.

Speaking at a real estate conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Bezalel Smotrich said that Israel had carried out “the first phase of urban renewal” by demolishing Gaza, and it was now working on a plan to start rebuilding it, saying the plans were now “on President Trump’s desk”.

Plan proposed as Netanyahu is keeping together an uncompromising coalition, which wants takeover of Gaza and West Bank.

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has described Gaza as a potential real estate “bonanza” and claimed he was talking to the United States about how to divide up the war-torn enclave.

The far-right minister has long advocated Israeli settlement of the Strip and the ‘voluntary emigration’ of the Palestinian population