Trump: US is ‘looking into’ whether Israel violated ceasefire by killing Hamas general

US President Donald Trump says Washington is “looking into” whether Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire with its strike that killed senior Hamas commander Raad Saad over the weekend.

Trump denies any rift in his relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel more broadly, despite reporting that his top aides are fuming at the premier over his conduct in Gaza.

Asked when the International Stabilization Force (ISF) will begin operating in Gaza, Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office that, “in a form, it’s already running.”

No country has publicly announced that it will contribute troops to the ISF, given concerns over Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israel’s veto on the involvement of key mediating countries Turkey and Qatar. The US is hosting a conference in Doha tomorrow aimed at offering potential donor countries more details on how the ISF will operate in a bid to move ahead with the initiative that has appeared to stall since the UN Security Council backed its formation roughly a month ago.

Trump again asserts that Hamas has agreed to disarm and that countries are eager to send troops in order to advance that effort if the terror group refuses to do so. Those claims have been refuted by officials from Hamas and potential ISF donor countries, respectively.

“They’ll send any number of troops that I ask them to send,” Trump insists nonetheless.