President Donald Trump spoke with reporters Friday morning and said he was on the verge of forging a deal that would end the war in Gaza and bring the Israeli hostages home.
As Trump prepared to depart the White House on his way to attend the Ryder Cup golf tournament in New York, he told reporters that he believed a deal was close.
“It’s looking like we have a deal on Gaza. I think it’s a deal that gets the hostages back, it’s going to be a deal that ends the war,” Trump said.
He White House is preparing a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a senior White House official told Reuters. The aim of the meeting is “reaching a framework for a deal,” the outlet reported.
From Reuters:
…the U.S. unveiled a 21-point Middle East peace plan to end the nearly two-year-long war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
The proposal was circulated on Tuesday to officials from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan, according to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.
According to Bloomberg, Arab states are on board. From Bloomberg:
Egypt’s foreign minister said Arab states support US President Donald Trump’s latest push to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
“It was very, very encouraging,” Badr Abdelatty told Bloomberg Television on Friday, referring to a meeting on Gaza between Trump and officials from Arab and Muslim-majority states earlier in the week. “We are in full support of the vision and plan of President Trump.”
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