Trump 'Not Confident' That Gaza Truce Will Hold

Trump's campaign was funded by pro-Israel billionaire Miriam Adelson

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Monday that he does not expect the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas to hold.

“It’s not our war,” he told a reporter. “It is their war. I am not confident. But I think they’re very weakened on the other side,” referring to Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for the sweetheart deal over the weekend and said Israel will be able to resume fighting when it wants — with even more U.S. support.

Trump’s supporters in Israel rejected the deal.

Bezalel Smotrich, the country’s finance minister, voted against the deal but his Religious Zionism party did not leave the government. He said that he was assured that Israel will be able to achieve all of its goals inside the enclave.

“Look at Gaza, it's destroyed, uninhabitable, and it will stay this way,” Smotrich said, according to Middle East Eye. “Don't be impressed with our enemies' forced screams of joy ... very soon we will wipe the smile off their face and replace them with cries of despair and weeping of those who are left with nothing.”