Today Eli Sharabi and several other hostages recently released from Hamas captivity will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. Their visit comes at a particularly tense time as negotiations between Israel and Hamas are at risk of collapse. The previous deal, which paused the fighting for six weeks, was a diplomatic act that Trump waded into even before he officially entered the Oval Office for a second term. So why does it seem that Trump is no longer committed to sustaining the very ceasefire in Gaza he helped broker nearly two months earlier?
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