U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday expressed gratitude to several nations, including Türkiye, for their involvement in shaping his proposed Gaza cease-fire plan.
"I want to thank the countries that help me put this together," Trump said in a video message where he named Qatar, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and "so many others."
While noting that the deal had yet to be finalized "in concrete," Trump nevertheless called the development an unprecedented "big day."
"Thank you all to those great countries that helped. We were given a tremendous amount of help. Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East and we're very close to achieving that," he said.
Hamas issued its formal response earlier to Trump's plan earlier Friday, in which it approved the release of all Israeli captives, the delivery of the bodies of the deceased and the handover of Gaza's administration to an independent technocratic Palestinian body.
