“I made a big mistake.” Trump urges Israel to stop the war in Gaza

Former US President Donald Trump warned the Israelis that they were losing international support for the war in Gaza, reiterating his call for it to end.

Trump said in an interview on Monday with the newspaper "Israel Hayom": "You must end the war. You must get it done. You must end it."

Trump added, "Israel has to be very careful because it is losing a lot from the world, and it is losing a lot of support, and it has to end, and it has to accomplish the mission. It also has to reach peace, and live a normal life for itself and everyone else."

Trump said he would have responded to the October 7 Hamas attack "the same way" Israel did, but expressed concern about the spectacle of a war in which Israeli strikes destroyed much of Gaza.

Trump attributed the rise in anti-Semitism in the United States to images of the devastation in Gaza due to the ongoing war, and said: “The Israeli army should not continue to publish footage of its strikes.”

"Israel made a very big mistake by publishing these terrible pictures," Trump said.

Trump also criticized US President Joe Biden for the Hamas attack, and claimed that the attack occurred “because they do not respect him,” and said, “Hamas would never have carried out this attack if I had been there. Because they knew there would be very serious consequences.”

Yesterday evening, Monday, the UN Security Council adopted its first resolution since the start of the war in Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Strip.