Vice President JD Vance and other US envoys projected optimism about the fragile ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday, calling progress better than anticipated as they visited Israel.
Vance noted flareups of violence in recent days but said the ceasefire that began on 10 October is going "better than I expected" after two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
The Trump administration's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, added that "we are exceeding where we thought we would be at this time."
They are in Israel as questions remain over the long-term plan for peace, including whether Hamas will disarm, when and how an international security force will deploy to Gaza and who will govern the territory after the war.
Vance tried to downplay any idea that his visit, his first as vice president, was urgently arranged to keep the ceasefir
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