Washington – President Trump will hold a joint press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday. This will be Mr. Trump’s first joint press conference with a foreign leader in his new mandate.
“I think it is a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance,” said Netanyahu said in a press release Before his trip to being the first foreign leader to meet Mr. Trump since he started his second term.
Netanyahu’s visit to Washington is fragile ceasefire continue to hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The mediators began negotiations for a second phase of the agreement which would release all the remaining hostages and end the war with Hamas.
“I have no assurance that he will hold. I mean, I saw brutalized people, “Trump told journalists on Monday in the oval office. “I have no guarantee that peace will hold.”
Mr. Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, who helped finalize this first phase of the cease-fire agreement, told journalists that the agreement “holds so far” and “We are certainly more hoped for”.
The Israeli leader said that he and Mr. Trump would discuss “victory over Hamas, achieving the release of all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terrorist axis in all its components”, referring to Iranian indicators in the region, including Hamas.
Chamber Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said that he also intended to meet Netanyahu at the American Capitol on Thursday.
