US President Donald Trump played a key role in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, applying immense pressure on both sides, Israeli foreign ministry special envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum says.
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00:00What a ceasefire deal have happened without Trump?
00:03And are these talks likely to continue?
00:06Because we've heard so much about the fragility
00:09of the ceasefire, which is currently in place.
00:12Well, to answer your first question,
00:14I actually don't think that the ceasefire
00:16would have happened without Trump.
00:18I think Trump put incredible pressure on both sides,
00:21but especially on Qatar,
00:23who is a sort of ally of the United States,
00:28and they're the ones holding the keys,
00:30certainly hosting the leaders of Hamas.
00:34And I think Hamas understood that they weren't going
00:36to get much joy from Donald Trump
00:39if they didn't actually agree to this deal,
00:41because even Antony Blinken said over the last year
00:44that every time that we were close to a ceasefire deal,
00:47it was Hamas that became intransigent and not Israel.
00:51And so this was important that Trump came in,
00:54and I think both sides understood that it had to be done,
00:57but especially the Hamas side,
01:00when Qatar pressures them to sign a deal,
01:03and Qatar had incentive to sign a deal
01:06because they knew that Donald Trump
01:08wasn't going to be so patient with them.