Overview

• At a CNN town hall, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders hesitated to credit President Trump for brokering the ceasefire and hostage releases.
• Ocasio-Cortez called the hostage release a tremendous accomplishment but labeled Trump an earlier obstacle to peace and questioned whether the truce will hold.
• Sanders said focus on credit is misplaced, citing estimates of 65,000 killed and 160,000 wounded in Gaza over the past two years.
• Sanders asserted the U.S. provided about $22 billion to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, while Ocasio-Cortez criticized U.S. nonenforcement of the Leahy Laws.
• Reporting noted Trump signed a ceasefire document with Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey this week as implementation moves into a second phase.