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Trump says hostage-ceasefire deal talks going ‘pretty well,’ expects there will be news ‘fairly soon’

By Jacob Magid 14 July 2025, 6:41 pm
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House, July 14, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House, July 14, 2025, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US President Donald Trump says “we’re doing pretty well on Gaza” and that “we could have something fairly soon to talk about.”

On June 27, Trump predicted that a ceasefire would take effect “within the next week.”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump appears to call Israel’s unilateral 2005 withdrawal from Gaza “one of the worst real estate deals ever made.”

“They gave up the oceanfront property… [and] it was supposed to bring peace… [but] it brought the opposite,” Trump says.

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