United States (US) President Donald Trump said on Friday he believes a ceasefire in the Gaza may be reached “within the next week”.

 

Speaking to reporters during an event celebrating a Congo-Rwanda accord in the Oval Office, the US president stated that he believes a ceasefire is close, pointing out that he had just been talking to some of the people involved in attempting to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

 

President Trump said that there is a “terrible” situation going on in Gaza, adding, “We are supplying a lot of money, food, and aid to those areas.”

 

“We are not involved in it; however, we are involved because so many people are dying,” he said, noting, “I look at those crowds of people that have no food, no anything.”

 

By the end of May, the US president's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, proposed a 60-day ceasefire, noting that Hamas would release 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 dead hostages who were taken to Gaza. 

 

Under the proposal, it was advised that Israel would release 125 “life sentence” prisoners, 1,111 Palestinian detainees and 180 killed Palestinians as part of the deal.

 

Israel has carried out genocide in Gaza with at least 56,000 people dead, most of them women and children.