Donald Trump privately rebuked Benjamin Netanyahu after an Israeli drone strike recently killed veteran Hamas commander Raed Saad in Gaza, Axios reported, citing two anonymous U.S. officials who said the White House sent an unequivocal message that the strike violated the ceasefire Trump helped negotiate.The rebuke, and frustration from senior U.S. figures
Marco Rubio,
Steve Witkoff and
Jared Kushner, reflect widening tensions over the second phase of the U.S.-backed peace plan — which calls for an Israeli troop withdrawal, a technocratic government for
Gaza without
Hamas and an international
stabilization force to be fielded by about 59 countries — and Netanyahu is expected to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago later this month.