Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday supported President Trump getting credit for the deal between Israel and Hamas. “Do you think he deserves credit here?” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Sullivan on “State of the Union.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will arrive in Israel Thursday night after helping mediate Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks in Egypt. US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Israel from Egypt on Thursday night.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were on hand to take part in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, which aim to end the war in Gaza.

Medical teams at an Israeli hospital awaiting the arrival of hostages expected to be released from Gaza are "prepared for anything," Noa Eliakim Raz, head of the Returning Hostages Unit at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, told NBC News.

Jared Kushner spoke tonight to a rally of tens of thousands at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv and praised Israel for not being drawn into 'imitating the barbarism of Hamas.'

In the deal, alongside the exchange of hostages, captives and Palestinian detainees, aid will increase. Israeli forces also have withdrawn to the “yellow line”, which still leaves them with more than 50 per cent control of the devastated, besieged strip. The handover of hostages is expected to happen by midday Monday.

The US president's son-in-law never really left the Middle East. Now he is one of two US interlocutors tapped with ending Israel's genocide in Gaza

White House adviser Jared Kushner hopes another Arab country normalises ties with Israel within months, he said, after arriving in the United Arab Emirates accompanied by Israeli officials on the first commercial flight between the countries.