US President-elect Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, will meet with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer later today, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Waltz and Dermer are expected to discuss the efforts to reach a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal and the Iranian threat, a reporter for Axios, which earlier reported the meeting, said on X, citing a source familiar with the meeting.
The meeting comes just weeks before Trump takes office on Jan. 20 following campaign promises to end the wars in the Middle East and elsewhere, though he has offered scant details on how he plans to proceed.
On Monday, Trump vowed there would be “hell to pay” in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his inauguration.
“Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America,” he wrote on Truth Social.
Israeli leaders on Tuesday hailed Trump’s pledge while the reaction in Gaza was less enthusiastic.
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