President Donald Trump shakes the hand of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Photo: AP)

US President Donald Trump has said that a deal to end the nearly two-year war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is close. Trump made the announcement during a joint briefing with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Oval Office on Thursday.

“We want to get Gaza over with,” Trump said.

“I think we’re close to getting some kind of deal done,” he adds.

“We want to get the hostages back, I have to get the hostages back,” the US President said, adding that there are around 20 living hostages and around “38 or so dead hostages”.

“Pretty sad, and the parents of those dead souls, those dead, mostly men, boys, many cases, they want those bodies back so badly,” he says.

Trump reiterated he b

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