Vice President JD Vance and Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner said Tuesday that the U.S.-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza is going better than they expected, despite the violence that erupted between Israel and Hamas in recent days. Vance, Kushner and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff are in Israel this week as they try to shore up the fragile ceasefire in Gaza .

"Look, I think that we are one week into President Trump's historic peace plan in the Middle East, and things are going frankly better than I expected that they were," Vance told reporters as he began his press conference in Israel.

Vance insisted this is "not the end" of the peace plan, but rather, "exactly how this is going to have to happen when you have people who hate each other, who have been fighting against ea

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