Trump says Israel agrees to 'necessary conditions to finalize' 60-day Gaza ceasefire

The Associated Press

· Posted: Jul 01, 2025 7:36 PM EDT | Last Updated: 31 minutes ago

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed connected presumption for a 60-day ceasefire successful Gaza and warned the militant radical Hamas to judge the woody earlier conditions worsen.

Trump announced the improvement — upon which Israel has yet to remark — as helium prepares to big Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks astatine the White House connected Monday. The U.S. person has been expanding unit connected the Israeli authorities and Hamas to broker a ceasefire and hostage statement and bring astir an extremity to the warfare successful Gaza.

"My Representatives had a agelong and productive gathering with the Israelis contiguous connected Gaza. Israel has agreed to the indispensable conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which clip we volition enactment with each parties to extremity the War," Trump wrote connected societal media, saying the Qataris and Egyptians would present the last proposal.

"I hope, for the bully of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, due to the fact that it volition not get amended — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE," helium said.

Trump's committedness that it was his champion and last connection whitethorn find a skeptical assemblage with Hamas. Even earlier the expiration of the war's longest ceasefire successful March, Trump has repeatedly issued melodramatic ultimatums to unit Hamas to hold to longer pauses successful the warring that would spot the merchandise of much hostages and a instrumentality of much assistance to Gaza's civilian populace.

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Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer was successful Washington connected Tuesday for talks with elder medication officials to sermon a imaginable Gaza ceasefire, Iran and different matters. Dermer was expected to conscionable with Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump repeated his anticipation for forging an Israel-Hamas ceasefire woody adjacent week.

Asked if it's clip to enactment unit connected Netanyahu to get a ceasefire woody done, Trump said the Israeli premier curate was acceptable to travel to an agreement.

"He wants to," Trump said successful an speech with reporters portion visiting a caller migration detention installation successful Florida. "I deliberation we'll person a woody adjacent week."

Talks betwixt Israel and Hamas person repeatedly faltered implicit a large sticking constituent — whether the warfare should extremity arsenic portion of immoderate ceasefire agreement. About 50 hostages stay captive successful Gaza, with little than fractional believed to beryllium alive.

Groups blast U.S.-backed assistance distribution

The improvement came arsenic much than 150 planetary charities and humanitarian groups called Tuesday for disbanding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a arguable Israeli- and U.S.-backed strategy that's distributing aid successful Gaza, due to the fact that of chaos and deadly unit against Palestinians seeking nutrient astatine its sites.

The associated connection by groups including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty International followed the killings of astatine slightest 10 Palestinians who were seeking desperately needed food, witnesses and wellness officials said. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed astatine slightest 37 successful confederate Gaza's Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital.

"Tents, tents they are hitting with 2 missiles?" asked Um Seif Abu Leda, whose lad was killed successful the strikes. Mourners threw flowers connected the assemblage bags.

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Before Trump's announcement, Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, had warned that his state would respond forcefully to the firing of a rocket the subject said originated from Yemen. Sirens sounded crossed parts of Israel, alerting residents to the onslaught and the motorboat of 2 projectiles from Gaza. All were intercepted by Israeli defence systems.

The rocket motorboat marked the archetypal onslaught by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels since the extremity of the 12-day warfare initiated by Israel with Iran. Katz said Yemen could look the aforesaid destiny arsenic Tehran.

Nasruddin Amer, lawman caput of the Houthi media office, vowed connected societal media that Yemen volition not "stop its enactment for Gaza, unless the aggression stops and the siege connected Gaza is lifted."

Speaking to his cabinet, Netanyahu did not elaborate connected plans for his sojourn to Washington adjacent week, but to accidental helium volition sermon a commercialized deal. Iran is besides expected to beryllium a main taxable of treatment successful Washington aft Trump brokered a ceasefire betwixt it and Israel.