The Biden administration began demanding a truce as the war hit the six-month mark in March 2024 and unveiled its own ceasefire plan that May. Inheriting and expanding Biden’s culture of impunity for Israel, Trump has made the use of that tactic even less likely. The Trump administration has since slashed teams of American officials doing that work and placed U.S. sanctions on ICC and U.N. personnel. AdvertisementFuzzy interpretations of Trump’s plan could further undermine its survival, particularly because the proposal itself is so vague. “The so-called ‘Trump peace plan’... fails to demand justice and reparations,” Agnes Callamard of Amnesty International said in a Wednesday night statement.

Source: Huffington Post October 10, 2025 05:23 UTC