{"id":82040,"date":"2025-07-22T02:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82040\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:28:51","slug":"trump-caught-off-guard-by-recent-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/82040\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘caught off guard’ by recent Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump was \u201ccaught off guard\u201d by the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and on a Catholic church in Gaza, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.<\/p>\n

Her comments were a rare suggestion of daylight between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have often been aligned on politics and foreign policy, particularly with the recent attacks on Iran\u2019s nuclear program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Trump is pushing for an end to the war in Gaza and trying to support the new Syrian government as the country emerges from years of civil war, and Israeli military operations have threatened to complicate those initiatives.<\/p>\n

An Israeli attack last week hit the Gaza Strip\u2019s only Catholic church<\/a>, killing three people and stirring outrage. In addition, Israel intervened<\/a> during the latest outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria, even bombing the capital, Damascus. <\/p>\n

Leavitt told reporters that Trump has \u201ca good working relationship\u201d with Netanyahu but \u201che was caught off guard by the bombing in Syria and also the bombing of a Catholic church in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn both accounts, the president quickly called the prime minister to rectify those situations,\u201d Leavitt said.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, told The Associated Press<\/a> that Israel\u2019s intervention in Syria \u201ccreates another very confusing chapter\u201d and \u201ccame at a very bad time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump was \u201ccaught off guard\u201d by the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[97,372,396,69,4526,57,2055,3464,99,3462,8133,3463,50,80,23312,36306,56061,96,93,103,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-82040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-2024-2025-mideast-wars","9":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","10":"tag-bombings","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-gaza-strip","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-government-and-politics","15":"tag-international-agreements","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-israel-government","18":"tag-karoline-leavitt","19":"tag-mideast-wars","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-politics","22":"tag-syria","23":"tag-syria-government","24":"tag-tom-barrack","25":"tag-war-and-unrest","26":"tag-washington-news","27":"tag-world","28":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114894536135418399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}