Netanyahu Says Meeting With Trump Focused on Efforts to Free Gaza Hostages

The meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday focused on efforts to release hostages held in Gaza, Netanyahu said.
In a July 8 post on the social media platform X, he said that Israel is also determined to eliminate Hamas’s military and governing capabilities to “ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.”
The statement follows the leaders’ second meeting at the White House in two days, as the United States works to broker another round of a cease-fire deal between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas after nearly two years of war….