Trump: Very good chance for Gaza deal this week or next week

By Jacob Magid

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9 July 2025, 9:03 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US President Donald Trump speaks during a multilateral lunch with visiting African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump tells reporters there’s a “very good chance that we’ll have a [Gaza hostage] settlement, an agreement, of some kind this week, and maybe next week if not.”

“I think we have a chance this week or next week — not definitely. There’s nothing definite about war and Gaza,” he says.

“We want to have a ceasefire, we want to have peace, we want to get the hostages back, and I think we’re close to doing it.”

Trump said last week that he believed a deal would be reached this week. The week before that, Trump said a deal would likely be reached within a week.