(LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump has predicted a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza “within the next week.”
Amid the signing of a peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda in the White House’s Oval Office on Friday evening, Trump addressed the “terrible situation” in the Gaza strip and stated that his administration believes “within the next week, we’re going to get a ceasefire.”
President Trump on Gaza: “We think within the next week we’re going to get a ceasefire.” pic.twitter.com/cWIRGnm963
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Continuing, the president noted that the U.S. is supplying “a lot of money and a lot of food” to Gaza, “because we have to … because people are dying.”
“We’re doing that because I think we have to on a humanitarian basis,” Trump said.
Touting recent successes in brokering peace globally, Trump boasted, “In a few short months we have now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda.”
On the conflict between Israel and Iran, the president stressed that the result of American intervention has been that “we ended up with no nuclear weapons,” and that, with the “12-day war” having come to an end, “hopefully there can be a lot of healing … Healing is starting.”