Trump says Gaza deal ‘very close,’ announcement may come as soon as today or tomorrow

US President Donald Trump says “we’re very close” to reaching a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.

“We’ll let you know about it during the day or maybe tomorrow, and we have a chance of that,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office.

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However, Hamas says it is still reviewing a proposal from the US, which it received yesterday.

The proposal also stipulates that the sides still need to agree on the parameters of the IDF’s partial withdrawal from Gaza during the temporary truce.

Sources familiar with the negotiations told The Times of Israel that Hamas is disappointed with the proposal, as it still gives Israel the option to resume fighting at the end of the temporary truce, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to do.

Not wanting to be pegged as the party to blame for the impasse, Hamas is leaning toward accepting the proposal, while submitting a series of reservations, the two sources said, in what will likely drag the talks out for at least several more days.

While Netanyahu told hostage families yesterday that he is principally supportive of the deal, he has yet to bring it before the cabinet to be approved, and several far-right members of his coalition have already come out against the proposal.

Earlier this week, Netanyahu infuriated hostage families by declaring that he hoped to make an announcement regarding the hostages “today or tomorrow” only to walk it back, explaining that he meant to explain that Israel is constantly working to secure the release of the hostages.