US President Donald Trump on Monday reposted a video message filmed by released hostage soldier Agam Berger. In it, she thanked him for his efforts to secure the ongoing ceasefire-hostage deal between Israel and the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

Berger, 20, was one of five female surveillance soldiers kidnapped from the IDF’s Nahal Oz military base on October 7, 2023, and released by Hamas last month in the first phase of the arrangement.

Berger thanked Trump “from the bottom of my heart for all you have done and all that you continue to do for the hostages.

“Because of you, we came home,” she said, adding that there were “still people who really depend on you and are waiting for you to save them from there,” adding that the US president “has the power to do it.”

The Gaza deal — mediated by both the incoming and outgoing US administrations — came into effect the day before Trump took office last month, bringing to a halt 15 months of fighting that began when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing over 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 hostages.

The US president has on multiple occasions taken credit for the agreement through his pressure on both sides, though it also came after more than a year of effort by the........

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