If they respect us, it will hold. If they don’t respect us, all hell will break out,' Trump tells NBC News in phone interview - Anadolu Ajansı

Months of tedious talks over a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza – negotiations that required officials from an outgoing and incoming presidential administration to put aside their fundamental differences – culminated in an intense late-night push for an agreement that finally came to fruition on Wednesday.

Former Howard Government Minister Peter McGauran says Donald Trump’s “intervention” into the Israel and Hamas war played a role in the official ceasefire deal.