Gaza deal possible next week: US Prez
Activists from Pink Front and demonstrators take part in a protest, to demand the immediate release of hostages held in Gaza since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel. Reuters
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President Donald Trump said on Friday it was good that Hamas said it had responded in “a positive spirit” to a US-brokered Gaza ceasefire proposal.
He told reporters aboard Air Force One there could be a deal on a Gaza ceasefire by next week but that he had not been briefed on the current state of negotiations.
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Israeli airstrikes killed 14 people in the Gaza Strip, while another 10 Palestinians were killed separately as they sought food in the embattled enclave on Saturday. Two American aid workers with the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation were also injured in southern Gaza in an attack at a food distribution site.
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