Joe Biden or Donald Trump – who should claim credit for the Gaza ceasefire deal?

Joe Biden said his team negotiated the deal, but Donald Trump said it was agreed only because he is the incoming US president 

President Joe Biden (right) meets with president-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office. File picture: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The question yelled at Joe Biden by a reporter was unapologetically blunt: “Who do you think deserves credit for this Mr President: you or [Donald] Trump?” 

Biden had just finished announcing what he presented as his signature foreign policy achievement — a ceasefire-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas to halt the bloody war in Gaza that has left 46,000 Palestinians and 1,700 Israelis dead. He wasn’t in the mood for that debate.