absence in the ceasefire plan process, presented under the leadership of US President Donald Trump. Europe has been absent from a ceasefire plan between Israel and Hamas because it has "basically caved in to Palestinian terrorism (and) radical Islamist minorities," Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Euronews in an exclusive interview on Sunday. "That's why Europe has essentially become irrelevant and displayed enormous weakness," Netanyahu stated, adding that it was US President Donald Trump who took the leadership and initiative for the "realistic" ceasefire deal. "What should be done is exactly what President Trump is doing. He's presenting a realistic peace plan that eliminates the terrorist elements, the elements that want to continue the war again and who vow to repeat the massacre of 7 October again and then (some)." He slammed the decision of 15 out of 27 EU member states to recognise the Palestinian state, calling it "an ultimate reward (to) Islamists".

"They (Europe) basically said let's just give them a Palestinian state which would be the ultimate reward for Hamas after doing the greatest massacre against the Jews since the Holocaust," Netanyahu said. He claimed that this decision caused "enormous damage" not just for Israel but for the whole of the Middle East. (Euronews)