President Donald Trump will be “very firm” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said of the need to come to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas when the two meet at the White House on Monday.

Netanyahu’s third visit to Washington since the start of Trump’s second term comes after the United States and Israel’s military operations targeting Iran’s nuclear program in what the president has coined the “12-Day War.”

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