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US President Donald Trump said, Monday, that he cannot guarantee the tenuous ceasefire in the besieged Gaza Strip will hold, just one day before he hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Anadolu Agency reports.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he has “no assurances” that the truce will remain in force.
“I’ve seen people brutalised. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. No, I have no guarantees that the peace is going to hold,” he said.
Trump will host Netanyahu on Tuesday in what will mark the first official visit of a foreign leader since he assumed office last month.
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