For the first time in nearly 21 months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is showing an openness to talks that could potentially end the conflict, Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut reports.

She adds that pressure had previously come internally from the families of Israeli captives, or from allies within the European Union.

“What’s different now is that the pressure is coming from Donald Trump himself. It seems, with the many security consultations that Netanyahu has been holding in recent days, that this push is finally making some headway,” Salhut reports.

“Netanyahu will have another consultation tonight with his cabinet and security chiefs, before he heads to Washington tomorrow to discuss a possible ceasefire with Trump,” she adds.

Salhut reports that the Israeli security cabinet will discuss what Tel Aviv wants as part of this deal. The US has said that Israel agreed, in theory, to everything outlined in an initial 60-day ceasefire proposal and that immediately, there would be talks towards ending the fighting.

“Netanyahu has previously said he was against this because Israel had not met its objectives: The captives were not released; Hamas was not destroyed,” she reports. “So Netanyahu is going to be getting plans from his security chiefs on what Israel can get as part of this deal, and what they can do in the negotiations to help them accomplish these goals.”