Washington – President Trump will hold a joint press conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday. It will be the first joint press conference Mr. Trump with a foreign leader in his new term.
“I think this is a testimony of the power of the Israeli-American Union,” Netanyahu in a statement On the eve of his trip to the first side of the leader, which met with Mr. Trump since he started his second term.
Netanyahu’s visit to Washington comes as a fragile cease-fire continues to keep in between Israel and Hamas In Gaza. Mediators began negotiations for the second phase of the agreement that would liberate all the remaining hostages and end the war with Hamas.
“I have no belief that it will stick to it. I mean, I saw people who were brushed out,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Monday at an oval office. “I have no guarantee that peace will maintain.”
Mr. Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, who helped to complete the first phase of the trial agreement, told reporters that the agreement was “holding up” and “we definitely hope”.
The Israeli leader said that he and Mr. Trump would talk about “victory over Hamas, achieving all our hostages and dealing with the Iranian terrorist axis in all his components,” referring to Iranian intermediaries in the region, including Hamas.
The speaker of the house Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiane, said he was planning to meet with Netanyahu on the US Capitol on Thursday.
