Trump credits Iran nuclear strikes for kickstarting Israel-Hamas peace deal

President Donald Trump told Fox News in an exclusive interview Monday that he credits the U.S. strikes on key Iranian nuclear sites for making the Israel-Hamas peace deal possible.

Trump made the comments to Fox News' Trey Yingst in Israel after Hamas freed the remaining 20 living Israeli hostages from captivity in Gaza. 

"I think it really started when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran," Trump told Yingst. "When you look at what they had, you couldn't have made this deal with someone sitting over there with a nuclear weapon over your head."

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