Trump pushing an 'all or nothing' Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, special envoy says

President Donald Trump is pushing a comprehensive “all or nothing” ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that would see the end of hostilities and all the hostages returned, his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, told hostage families over the weekend.“No piecemeal deals.

President Donald Trump is pushing a comprehensive “all or nothing” ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that would see the end of hostilities and all the hostages returned, his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, told hostage families over the weekend.

“No piecemeal deals. That doesn’t work,” Witkoff could be heard saying in audio leaked to the Israeli news website Ynet. NBC News was not able to independently verify the audio, but two people who were in the room corroborated the comments.

“Now, we think that we have to shift this negotiation to all or nothing. Everybody comes home,” Witkoff says later in the recording of the meeting with hostage families, which was also reported on by The New York Times.

Daniel Lifshitz said Witkoff had said the U.S. was looking to “shift from partial deal to a full-scale deal,” but did not expand on exactly how that would happen.

“He spoke about shifting because there is nothing else to do now,” Lifshitz told NBC News on Monday. He said Witkoff spoke with hostage families for nearly three hours.