US President Donald Trump is reportedly pushing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to conclude the 20-month-old war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the success of the 12-day war against Iran, several Hebrew media outlets reported Thursday, amid calls in Israel for the same.

The Kan public broadcaster reported that Trump’s demand to cancel Netanyahu’s criminal trial was also linked to this effort.

The report said that an unnamed senior Israeli official close to Netanyahu had said Trump’s Truth Social post demanding that Netanyahu no longer be forced to stand trial on multiple criminal charges “wasn’t sent out for no reason.”

“It is part of a larger move that is meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza, the release of all the hostages, an end to Netanyahu’s trial, and a serious regional move,” said the official.

According to the source, Trump published the statement “to prepare public opinion in Israel for a pardon process for Netanyahu.”

It was unclear from the report how the cancellation of Netanyahu’s trial would be integrated into a regional deal, or indeed whether such a move would even be possible.

Yet at the same time, mediators involved in the ongoing ceasefire and hostage deal negotiations between Israel and Hamas said Thursday there had yet to be any breakthrough in that regard, and that there wouldn’t be one unless both sides started taking negotiations in Cairo more seriously.

Meanwhile, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported that as part of the American president’s plan to end the war, new countries would join the Abraham Accords, and Israel would be required to commit to supporting a future Palestinian state.

According to the outlet, Trump brought up the matter of ending the war during a “euphoric” phone call with Netanyahu late on Monday, following the US’s weekend strikes on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities.

The two leaders were joined on the call by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, said the outlet.

Citing an unnamed source familiar with the conversation, the newspaper reported that during the phone call, the two leaders agreed to wrap up the war in Gaza within two weeks, requiring Israel to halt its military offensive and Hamas to release the remaining 50 hostages.

The Palestinian terror group’s leadership would then be exiled, and four Arab states, including the UAE and Egypt, would be tasked with jointly governing the war-torn enclave in its place, the report said. It did not identify the other two Arab states that would supposedly govern the territory.

As part of the rehabilitation of the Strip, any Gazans wishing to emigrate would be absorbed by several unnamed countries, Israel Hayom said.

Arab states have repeatedly asserted that they will not take part in the postwar rehabilitation of Gaza absent Israeli acquiescence to the Palestinian Authority gaining a foothold in the Strip as part of a pathway to a future two-state solution, a demand that, until now, Netanyahu has flatly rejected.

Moreover, Hamas’s leaders have also long rejected demands to go into exile.

As part of the plan, Trump and Netanyahu were said to have agreed that Israel would be required to express support for a future two-state solution, conditioned on reforms made by the Palestinian Authority. In exchange, Washington would recognize Israeli sovereignty in some parts of the West Bank.

With the end of the war in Gaza and a renewed Israeli commitment to a future two-state solution, both Saudi Arabia and Syria would establish ties with Israel under the Abraham Accords, the report stated, and other Arab and Muslim countries would follow suit.

Saudi Arabia has long conditioned the establishment of diplomatic ties on Israel’s commitment to Palestinian statehood, while the possibility of peace with Syria has been raised repeatedly in recent months as the two countries are reportedly in direct contact following the fall of the Assad regime last year.

Prior to Israel’s 12-day war with Iran and Israel’s extensive blows to the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, Trump was said to be pushing Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza.

Now, with the ceasefire there holding, he has resumed these efforts, two unnamed political sources told Israel Hayom. Another source denied this to the outlet, saying they weren’t familiar with any pressure.

The heady plan for the future of Gaza, Israel, and the wider region explained Trump’s fury over Israel’s planned retaliation to Iran’s violation of the nascent ceasefire on Tuesday, the report claimed, as well as his Truth Social post on Thursday demanding an end to the premier’s corruption trial.

Trump’s apparent demand for Israel to wrap up its war in Gaza following the successful Iran offensive is being increasingly echoed in Israel, including by President Isaac Herzog.

Speaking at the funeral of slain hostage Ofra Keidar, whose body was recovered from Gaza earlier this week, Herzog urged Netanyahu and the country’s top decision makers to act at this “key moment” following the war with Iran and secure a deal to bring home the remaining hostages.

“Send all the teams, at the most senior levels, talk to everyone you need to talk to, keep working in every way and with all your might until they return to us,” the president demanded.

This call was picked up by relatives of the hostages as well, who told reporters during a virtual press conference on Thursday that with the ceasefire in Iran, a renewed push for a hostage deal must come next.

“There’s this amazing success that Israel just had in Iran and we need to leverage that,” said Dalia Cusnir-Horn, whose brother-in-law, Eitan Horn, is still held hostage in Gaza. Eitan’s brother, Iair Horn, was released in February.

But even amid the renewed push to bring an end to the war, Kan reported that no progress had been made in Cairo, where Palestinian-American political activist Bishara Bahbah has been in talks with senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad about a US ceasefire proposal.

Bahbah told the Jordanian Al Ghad TV channel on Tuesday that it would be possible to reach a deal “within days,” and that very few remaining disagreements remained between Israel and Hamas over the terms of the deal.

But according to Kan, there has still yet to be a breakthrough with regard to these final disagreements, as Hamas is refusing to seriously engage in the talks with Bahbah unless Israel also dispatches a delegation to Egypt.

Sources told The Times of Israel earlier this week that Jerusalem was holding off on sending a delegation until it was able to determine whether the war with Iran had influenced Hamas to soften its positions.

But a Palestinian source familiar with negotiations told Kan that Hamas was responding in kind and was refusing to dispatch senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya to the Cairo talks unless Israel sent a team as well.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 50 hostages, including 49 of the 251 abducted by Hamas-led terrorists on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 28 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Hamas is also holding the body of an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

Jacob Magid and Jessica Steinberg contributed to this report.