Trump and Netanyahu to hold joint press conference at the White House Tuesday

Washington — President Trump will hold a joint news conference at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday. It will be Mr. Trump's first joint news conference with a foreign leader in his new term. 

"I think it's a testimony to the strength of the Israeli-American alliance," Netanyahu said in a statement ahead of his trip on being the first foreign leader to meet with Mr. Trump since he began his second term. 

Netanyahu's visit to Washington comes as a fragile ceasefire continues to hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Mediators have begun negotiations for a second phase of the deal that would free all the remaining hostages and end the war with Hamas.