Even as Netanyahu has avoided any movement toward the second phase of the hostage deal with Hamas, despite Israel’s commitment to do so, Trump has shrugged his shoulders.

“I really am,” he said in response to a question about whether he is fine with whatever choice Netanyahu makes on a hostage deal.
“You do whatever you want,” Trump says he has told Netanyahu.

In the short term, at least, it is clear what Netanyahu wants and doesn’t want in the deal with Hamas.

He is looking to force the terror group into an extension of the hostage-ceasefire agreement’s first, 42-day phase, which expired on Saturday.

That would see more living hostages released, and more Palestinian security prisoners freed in exchange, but without an Israeli commitment to end the war.