Trump: Gaza war ‘proceeding at a very low level — it’s just about there’

US President Donald Trump states that he “ended eight wars” since coming to office, including Israel versus Iran “and of course the war in Gaza, which proceeds at a very low level — it’s just about there.”

He then thanks his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who are in the crowd at the State of the Union, as well as Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“Under the ceasefire I negotiated, every hostage — both living and dead — has been returned home, can you believe that?” Trump says. “I said those last 20 are going to be tough, but we got them back.”

Noting Hamas did not return all the slain hostages along with the last living captives, Trump says, “believe it or not, Hamas worked along with Israel, and they dug, and they dug, and they dug — it’s a tough thing to do, going through bodies all over… tough job.”

“They found all 28, no one thought that was possible, but we did it.”

Referring to the family of Israel Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last dead hostage to be returned from the Gaza Strip, Trump says that “they were so grieved, but they were so happy, they were as happy as possible to be. They had their boy back. The mother said, ‘sir, we have our boy back.'”

“What a period of time that was, but we got them all back,” the US president adds.