Former US president
Donald Trump warned Israel in an interview published Monday that it was losing support over the war in Gaza, reiterating his call to "finish it up". The comments from Trump, the presumptive
Republican nominee to take on President
Joe Biden in November's US
election, came as
Washington abstained at a UN Security Council vote calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. "You have to finish up your war. To finish it up. You gotta get it done," Trump told the Israel Hayom newspaper in an interview the right-wing freesheet said had been recorded over the weekend. "And I will say, Israel has to be very careful, because you're losing a lot of the world, you're losing a lot of support, you have to finish up, you have to get the
Job done." Trump frequently touts himself as a devoted ally of Israel, pointing to his decision to move the
US Embassy to
JERUSALEM and his administration's role in brokering the 2020 Abraham Accords which saw Arab countries including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain normalise ties with Israel. The war in
Gaza was triggered by Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel which resulted in the deaths of about 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official
Israeli figures. Israel's retaliatory
MILITARY campaign to destroy Hamas has killed 32,333 people, mostly
Women and children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Trump told Israel Hayom he would have responded to Hamas's attack "very much the same way" Israel did, but expressed concern about the optics of a war in which Israeli strikes have left much of Gaza in ruins. Related Story Israel besieges two more Gaza hospitals, demands evacuations,
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