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Trump
says Gaza deal 'better be done before I take the oath of office'
US
president-elect Donald Trump has said the Gaza ceasefire deal had “better be
done before I take the oath of office” on Monday and called outgoing president
Joe Biden “ungracious” for claiming credit for it. AFP reports:
Four days
away from being inaugurated for a second term, Trump told the Dan Bongino Show
that negotiations would have never finalised without pressure from his team,
including Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff.
“If we
weren’t involved in this deal, the deal would’ve never happened,” Trump said.
“We changed
the course of it, and we changed it fast, and frankly, it better be done before
I take the oath of office,” he added.
Trump also
blasted outgoing President Joe Biden for taking credit for the ceasefire
agreement, calling him “ungracious” and saying: “He didn’t do anything! If I
didn’t do this, if we didn’t get involved, the hostages would never be out.”
Aside from a
week-long ceasefire in November 2023, Biden has failed throughout the 15 months
of the war to get Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a
further truce and has instead supplied him with billions of dollars worth of
weapons.
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