Netanyahu to meet Trump at White House amid mounting pressure to bring hostages back, likely to discuss tariff

Netanyahu-Trump meeting: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to hold his second meeting with American President Donald Trump on Monday after the latter assumed the presidency in the United States in January this year. The meeting, confirmed by a White House official, comes against the backdrop of Israel deploying troops in a new security corridor across Gaza to pressure the Hamas militant group. Netanyahu's office has stated that the meeting will focus on “the tariff issue, the efforts to return our hostages, Israel-Turkey relations, the Iranian threat and the battle against the International Criminal Court." Notably, Israel faces a 17 per cent tariff under Trump's latest tariff announcements. 

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