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President Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago today.
NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports the two leaders are expected to talk through a proposal aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
They're in stage one, the shaky ceasefire and getting more aid in.
Israel has set up what it calls a yellow line, so it controls a large part of Gaza,
and it does strike across that yellow line when it sees threats.
Now, the deal was that they would go to phase two once all the Israeli hostages are out,
but there is still the body of one Israeli police officer who was killed in the October 7th attack.
Hamas says the people who knew where that body was have since been killed.
The Israelis say they don't think Trump should move forward.
until the body is returned and Hamas agrees to disarm.
So that's where things are kind of stuck for the moment.
That's NPR's Michelle Kellerman reporting from Jerusalem.
Netanyahu is also expected to push for tougher action against Iran,