Former Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday supported President Trump getting credit for the deal between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think he deserves credit here?\u201d CNN\u2019s Dana Bash asked Sullivan on \u201cState of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course he does. And I give credit to President Trump, I give credit to [Steve] Witkoff and [Jared] Kushner and [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio. These are hard jobs. The president of the United States is the hardest job in the world, and these other jobs, including the job I occupied, are tremendously difficult,\u201d Sullivan responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd to get to something like today takes a village, and it takes determination and really hard work, and so I, without question, offer credit for that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Trump recently announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement to free the remaining Israeli hostages and halt fighting in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The president said Israel and Hamas had backed \u201cthe first Phase\u201d of a peace plan announced in late September, a notable reprieve to stop a war that had gone on for more than two years since<\/a> Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n