After Iran, Trump Aims to End War in Gaza

TIME

After brokering a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran, Donald Trump is urging Israel and Hamas to make a deal that would stop the 20-month-long war in Gaza that has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians and over a thousand Israelis.  “MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. GET THE HOSTAGES BACK!!!” the U.S. President posted on Truth Social early Sunday.  Trump told reporters on Friday that an agreement could be reached within the next week. On Saturday evening Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “right now in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back,” in a post slamming the corruption proceedings against Netanyahu. An Israeli court on Monday postponed this week’s hearings in Netanyahu’s trial after he made a request based on classified diplomatic and security reasons.

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00:00How close are you and your administration to a deal in terms of Gaza ceasefire right now?

00:07Often asked, and I think it's close.

00:10I just spoke with some of the people involved.

00:13It's a terrible situation that's going, Gaza, he's asking about.

00:18And we think within the next week we're going to get a ceasefire.

00:22And we're supplying, as you know, a lot of money and a lot of food to that area

00:25because we have to, I mean, you have to.

00:27We're in theory not involved in it, but we're involved because people are dying.

00:33And I look at those crowds of people that have no food, no anything.

00:36And, you know, we're the ones that are getting it there.

00:40Some of it's being taken by some bad people, you know,

00:44where if you give it and you give it out and they're supposed to be taking care of the people

00:47and they end up stealing the food and selling it.

00:50But we have a pretty good system now.

00:52But so we're helping with that.

00:54It's too bad.

00:55Other countries aren't helping out.

00:56Nobody's helping out where we're doing that because I think we have to on a humanitarian basis like this.

01:04We didn't have to get involved in Africa, but we did because we thought it was.

01:07I mean, I've been reading, like J.D. said, he's, you know, from much of his life,

01:12he's been just seeing this about this brutal war.

01:16So it's great.

01:17But we're working on Gaza, trying to get it taken care of.

01:20And again, you know, a lot of food has been sent there.

01:24And other countries throughout the world should be helping also.

01:27And we're doing this.

01:27So we...

01:32We all have a lot of people.

01:33Let's go.

01:34Let's go.

01:34Yeah.

01:34Let's go.

01:35Okay.

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