The American National Review magazine said, "The next President, Donald Trump, must make clear that if our country is exposed to weapons from Iran, the United States will strike hard - and directly - against Iran."

The American Wall Street Journal revealed that the US President-elect plans to reclassify the Iranian-backed Houthi militia as a foreign terrorist group, as part of a package of sanctions that he intends to impose on Iran to prevent it from being able to possess a nuclear weapon.

Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in an interview with Sky News that US President-elect Donald Trump wants to reach an agreement before he takes office in January.

US President-elect Donald Trump said that if the detainees in the Gaza Strip are not released before his inauguration on January 20, there will be "hell" in the Middle East.

The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast a recording today, Saturday, of an Israeli prisoner who holds American citizenship, in which he spoke about his suffering and the conditions of his detention, and addressed a message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President-elect Donald Trump.

The British newspaper The Guardian said in its editorial that the agreement brokered by the United States is a success for Lebanese civilians who have suffered under the burden of a conflict that lasted for about 14 months, in which about 4,000 people were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced.