Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas, Trump says

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day that Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day cease­fire in Gaza and warned Hamas to accept the deal before con­di­tions wors­en.

Trump announced the devel­op­ment as he pre­pares to host Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu for talks at the White House on Mon­day. The U.S. leader has been increas­ing pres­sure on the Israeli gov­ern­ment and Hamas to bro­ker a cease­fire and hostage agree­ment and bring about an end to the war in Gaza.

“My Rep­re­sen­ta­tives had a long and pro­duc­tive meet­ing with the Israelis today on Gaza. Israel has agreed to the nec­es­sary con­di­tions to final­ize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, dur­ing which time we will work with all par­ties to end the War,” Trump wrote, say­ing the Qataris and Egyp­tians would deliv­er the final pro­pos­al.

“I hope, for the good of the Mid­dle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, because it will not get bet­ter — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” he said.

Trump’s promise that it was his best and final offer may find a skep­ti­cal audi­ence with Hamas. Even before the expi­ra­tion of the war’s longest cease­fire in March, Trump has repeat­ed­ly issued dra­mat­ic ulti­ma­tums to pres­sure Hamas to agree to longer paus­es in the fight­ing that would see the release of more hostages and a return of more aid to Gaza­’s civil­ian pop­u­lace.

Israeli Min­is­ter for Strate­gic Affairs Ron Der­mer was in Wash­ing­ton on Tues­day for talks with senior admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials to dis­cuss a poten­tial Gaza cease­fire, Iran and oth­er mat­ters. Der­mer was expect­ed to meet with Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance, Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Rubio and spe­cial envoy Steve Witkoff.

Ear­li­er Tues­day, Trump repeat­ed his hope for forg­ing an Israel-Hamas cease­fire deal next week.

Asked if it’s time to put pres­sure on Netanyahu to get a cease­fire deal done, Trump said the Israeli prime min­is­ter was ready to come to an agree­ment.

“He wants to,” Trump said of Netanyahu in an exchange with reporters while vis­it­ing a new immi­gra­tion deten­tion facil­i­ty in Flori­da. “I think we’ll have a deal next week.”

Talks between Israel and Hamas have repeat­ed­ly fal­tered over a major stick­ing point — whether the war should end as part of any cease­fire agree­ment. About 50 hostages remain cap­tive in Gaza, with less than half believed to be alive.

The devel­op­ment came as over 150 inter­na­tion­al char­i­ties and human­i­tar­i­an groups called Tues­day for dis­band­ing a con­tro­ver­sial Israeli- and U.S.-backed sys­tem to dis­trib­ute aid in Gaza because of chaos and dead­ly vio­lence against Pales­tini­ans seek­ing food at its sites.

The joint state­ment by groups includ­ing Oxfam, Save the Chil­dren and Amnesty Inter­na­tion­al fol­lowed the killings of at least 10 Pales­tini­ans who were seek­ing des­per­ate­ly need­ed food, wit­ness­es and health offi­cials said. Mean­while, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 37 in south­ern Gaza­’s Khan You­nis, accord­ing to Nass­er Hos­pi­tal.

“Tents, tents they are hit­ting with two mis­siles?” asked Um Seif Abu Leda, whose son was killed in the strikes. Mourn­ers threw flow­ers on the body bags.

Before Trump’s announce­ment, Israel’s defense min­is­ter, Israel Katz, had warned that his coun­try would respond force­ful­ly to the fir­ing of a mis­sile the mil­i­tary said orig­i­nat­ed from Yemen. Sirens sound­ed across parts of Israel, alert­ing res­i­dents to the attack and the launch of two pro­jec­tiles from Gaza. All were inter­cept­ed by Israeli defense sys­tems.

The mis­sile launch marked the first attack by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels since the end of the 12-day war ini­ti­at­ed by Israel with Iran. Katz said Yemen could face the same fate as Tehran.

Nas­rud­din Amer, deputy head of the Houthi media office, vowed on social media that Yemen will not “stop its sup­port for Gaza … unless the aggres­sion stops and the siege on Gaza is lift­ed.”

Speak­ing to his Cab­i­net, Netanyahu did not elab­o­rate on plans for his vis­it to Wash­ing­ton next week, except to say he will dis­cuss a trade deal. Iran is also expect­ed to be a main top­ic of dis­cus­sion in Wash­ing­ton after Trump bro­kered a cease­fire between it and Israel.