U.S. Vice President JD Vance might be bound for Israel soon. Or it might be a colleague, he told reporters under a wing of Air Force Two after it landed at Joint Base Andrews, in Maryland, on Sunday evening.
“We might. We’re trying to figure it out. Obviously want to go and check on how things are going,” Vance said in a gaggle, per the pool report. “I think somebody from the administration is certainly going to be over there in the next few days. It might be me, but we’re going to figure out how to travel there.”
Asked how confident he is that a truce can hold in Gaza, after Hamas attacked Israeli troops in southern Gaza on Sunday, and the Jewish state responded.
“Look, it’s going to be complicated. I mean the best case scenario, meaning if this thing absolutely produces that sustainable long term peace that the president and I hope that it will, there’s going to be fits and starts,” Vance said, per the pool.
“There are going to be Hamas is going to fire on Israel. Israel’s going to have to respond, of course. There are going to be moments where you have people within Gaza that you’re quite sure what they’re actually doing,” he said. “But we think it has the best chance for sustainable peace, but even if it does that, it’s going to have hills and valleys.”
“We’re going to have to monitor the situation,” he said.
