US President Donald Trump is pitching a peace plan for Gaza — it appears to be a new version of existing proposals to end the conflict.

It was rewritten by key advisor Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner (the president's former Middle East envoy) to be more palatable to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

It echoes the February 2024 Biden plan and much of the French-Saudi plan endorsed at the United Nations earlier this month, prioritising an end to the war and the full release of Israeli hostages as soon as both Israel and Hamas accept the deal.

Where the plan considers Gaza's future, its key elements can be distilled to far fewer than its stated 20 points:

Gazans can stay in Gaza and those who left (or still want to leave) will be allowed to return.

The Palestinian Aut

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