Steve Witkoff helped negotiate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. His visit to Gaza on Wednesday was the first by a senior U.S. official in more than a decade.

Witkoff, who is Jewish and who has been friends with Trump since the 1980s when he bought Trump a sandwich after they worked on a real estate transaction, has no Middle East diplomatic experience.

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Trump has said a second Holocaust is all but nigh, but it was the first time he set a deadline for Israel’s destruction. WASHINGTON — Fred Zeidman, a Houston businessman and Republican ...

Hardliners oppose ceasefire in Israel, future governance of Gaza remains unclear