The President of the United States, Donald Trump, began a press conference with the presence of his office this Thursday (9), during which he made comments on the first phase of his peace plan in the Middle East to achieve a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
“I believe it will be a lasting peace, I hope it will be an eternal peace. Peace in the Middle East,” he declared at the opening of the cabinet meeting at the White House.
According to the Republican, the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza will be released between Monday and Tuesday of next week. “Recovering them is a complicated process. I prefer not to comment on what they need to do to recover them. There are places you don’t want to be. But we will rescue the hostages on Tuesday — Monday or Tuesday — and that will be a day of joy,” he said.
The president added that he intends to travel to the region to “formalize” the signing of the agreement. He included a stop in Egypt, the location of the negotiations, during the visit. Trump also thanked Arab mediators for making the agreement between Israel and Hamas a reality.
The Republican praised his government’s efforts to reach an agreement between Israel and Hamas, after three days of negotiations. He stated that the conflict is the “eighth that has been resolved [por seu governo] and signaled that war in Ukraine will be next.”
“We’ve resolved seven major wars or conflicts, and this is number eight. And the one that I thought would be perhaps the quickest of all, between Russia and Ukraine, hasn’t happened yet. Although I think that will happen too,” Trump declared.
The American considers his government’s victories to be involved in peace negotiations in the Cambodia-Thailand conflicts; Kosovo-Serbia; Democratic Republic of Congo-Rwanda; Pakistan-India; Israel-Iran; Egypt-Ethiopia; and Armenia-Azerbaijan.
The president lamented that while the end of hostilities between Kiev and Moscow remains unanswered, “around 7,000 people are dying every week”, something he defined as “quite serious”.
Trump highlighted that the majority of these losses are soldiers, “young soldiers”, according to him. “They are going to war and they are being killed. And although it doesn’t affect us in many ways, since we have a big ocean between us, nobody wants that to happen,” he said.
Trump says attacks on Iran enabled “unity” in support of Gaza deal
The American president stated at the cabinet meeting that the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June contributed to the unity of countries to work on a ceasefire agreement for Gaza.
“I think the attack was very important for Iran, because let’s say it didn’t happen, they would probably already have a nuclear weapon, numerous nuclear weapons, and so even if we signed a deal, there would be a big dark cloud over it, and it wouldn’t be the same,” Trump said, adding that Tehran is in favor of the ceasefire agreement.
“Now Iran is different, Iran wants to work for peace”, declared the president of the United States, noting that “I would like to see Iran rebuild its country”, as long as it does not produce nuclear energy.
