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Trump administration working on 2nd phase of hostage-ceasefire deal – report
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Supporters and relatives of Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since Hamas's October 7, 2023, onslaught demonstrate in Tel Aviv on January 19, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
The Trump administration has begun work on the second phase of the ceasefire-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, Politico reports.
Officials and advisers to US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party say they worked with the Biden administration, but admit it will not be easy to push the phased agreement through.
“What Biden left us with is the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end,” one official tells the outlet.
Officials tell Politico that US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and newly confirmed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will begin work on the matter almost immediately.
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