Trump's incoming national security advisor urges ceasefire before 20 January

Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, spoke with ABC News on Sunday, where he called for a ceasefire deal in Gaza to happen before Trump's inauguration on 20 January.

"Hamas has nowhere else to go but enter some type of agreement. Let's have a ceasefire, let's allow our hostages to be set free. I want to see them walking across a tarmac. At a minimum, some type of agreement before inauguration," he said.

"Any deal will only get worse for Hamas, and there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East if we continue [to] have this kind of hostage diplomacy."

The US has repeatedly blamed Hamas for delaying the progress in achieving a ceasefire. However, in Israel, critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - including relatives of some of the dozens of hostages still in captivity in Gaza - have accused him of stalling a deal for his own political survival.