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Source: Reuters
Trump says US might lose patience with ceasefire deal
By Joey Roulette and Jeff Mason
February 10, 2025 1:41 AM EST Updated 7 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - President Trump on Sunday said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after seeing footage of the Palestinian militant group release Israeli hostages over the weekend, whose appearance he compared to Holocaust survivors.
Trump's reaction to seeing images of the three hostages, who appeared gaunt upon their release on Saturday, brought fresh uncertainty over the deal's fate before all remaining 76 hostages are freed and came days after the president called for the removal of Palestinians from the enclave and for the U.S. to take control of it.
"They look like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to New Orleans to attend the Super Bowl. "I don't know how much longer we can take that ... at some point we're going to lose our patience."
"I know we have a deal ... they dribble in and keep dribbling in ... but they are in really bad shape," Trump said of the Israeli hostages.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-us-might-lose-patience-with-ceasefire-deal-over-israeli-hostages-2025-02-10/