The White House releases photos of Netanyahu's apology call in Qatar.

BarcelonaBenjamin Netanyahu agreed on the future of Gaza on Monday. with Donald Trump. The meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister and the US President at the White House resulted in the famous 20-point plan to end the genocide in the StripBut other things happened at the Oval Office meeting. Among them was the call Trump forced Netanyahu to make to the Qatari government to apologize for the attack on Doha in early September, in which Israel killed five Hamas members.

Now the White House, in the midst of a campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize for the American president, has released photographs of that call. In one of the black-and-white images, the Israeli leader can be seen with the receiver of a landline telephone in his ear while Trump holds the base of the device in his lap. With his free hand, Netanyahu holds a piece of paper, which he looks at intently while speaking with his interlocutor, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jasim Al Thani.

Five additional photographs capture the moment, two of which show Trump starting the call before handing the phone to his guest. The images of the meeting posted on the White House website—more than seventy in total—attest to the presence of several members of the Trump administration in the Oval Office. This includes Vice President JD Vance; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth; and US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff.

The Qatari prime minister, along with Egypt's intelligence chief, is precisely the one who sent the 20-point proposal on the future of Gaza to Hamas, which is now reviewing the document. The US president has given the Islamist group "three or four days" to respond. a plan that is intended as an ultimatum.

Most Arab and European countries have supported the content of the document, although it demands, among other things, the unconditional surrender of the Palestinian militias and the establishment of a foreign authority in Gaza led by Trump and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

For whatever reason, the White House has also released a video montage of the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu on social media. And the message is clear: "President Donald J. Trump is working to bring the PAU to the Middle East." Let the word peace is written in capital letters is not innocent: it is worth remembering that the winner of the Nobel Prize will be announced on Friday, October 10.