Amid Concerns On Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, US Vice President Says 'Deal Is Going To Hold'

Amid concerns that Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal could fall apart, US Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday claimed that the deal “is going to hold”.

“What we’ve seen the past week gives me great optimism the ceasefire

is going to hold,” Vance said at a news conference, adding, “I feel very optimistic. Can I say with 100% certainty that it’s going to work? No.”

According to CNN, Vance declined to put a timeline on both the return of all Israeli hostage remains and Hamas’ disarmament, saying it will “take a little bit of time” and that security and humanitarian structures must be implemented in Gaza.

“If Hamas doesn’t comply with the deal, very bad things are going to happen. But I’m not going to do what the president of United States has thus far refused to do, which is put an explicit deadline on it, because a lot of this stuff is difficult,” he said at the press conference. He was accompanied at the news conference by Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, the key US architects of the deal.

While some have called Vance’s visit to Israel as “Bibisitting”, a US officials called it a “show of force from the highest-ranking person after the president himself” to make the administration’s stance clear that the ceasefire needs to be durable enough to “outlast inevitable skirmishes”.

CNN quoted the sources as saying that the general belief among US officials involved in the negotiations is that the truce is most threatened in the short term, which is why the trip needed to happen so soon after Trump’s visit just last week.

The concerns regarding the ceasefire deal were raised after Israel accused Hamas of carrying out an attack that killed two Israeli Defence Force soldiers and responded with series of airstrikes killing dozens of people in Gaza.

The US Vice President on Tuesday said that there needs to be a “constant effort” to “mediate these disagreements as they come up.” He, however, emphasised that the trip “had nothing to do with events in the past 48 hours”.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump threatened to have the group “eradicated” if ultimately necessary.

In a post on social media, he said: “Numerous of our NOW GREAT ALLIES in the Middle East, and areas surrounding the Middle East, have explicitly and strongly, with great enthusiasm, informed me that they would welcome the opportunity, at my request, to go into GAZA with a heavy force and “straighten our Hamas” if Hamas continues to act badly, in violation of their agreement with us.”

“The love and spirit for the Middle East has not been seen like this in a thousand years! It is a beautiful thing to behold! I told these countries, and Israel, “NOT YET!” There is still hope that Hamas will do what is right. If they do not, an end to Hamas will be FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL! I would like to thank all of those countries that called to help. Also, I would like to thank the great and powerful country of Indonesia, and its wonderful leader, for all of the help they have shown and given to the Middle East, and to the U.S.A. TO EVERYONE, thank you for your attention to this matter!” he added.orld