Trump claims to have ended 10 wars – what’s the proof of that?revealed at 08:58 BST
By Jake Horton
When saying a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon yesterday, US President Donald Trump stated: “It has been my Honor to resolve 9 Wars throughout the World, and this shall be my tenth.”
He’s beforehand claimed to have ended eight wars and the most recent battle with Iran, which the US began alongside Israel, would presumably be the ninth. Israel’s marketing campaign in Lebanon towards Hezbollah is the tenth he has claimed.
Though a ceasefire has apparently been agreed regarding Lebanon, and the Iran ceasefire has been in place since 8 April, no everlasting peace offers have been made for both battle.
The opposite eight wars Trump claims to have ended, in keeping with the White Home, are ones between: Israel and Hamas, Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.
BBC Verify has looked into this claim before and though it’s affordable for Trump to say credit score for some, reminiscent of serving to to dealer the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in Gaza, quite a few the opposite “wars” lasted simply days between international locations with long-standing tensions. And in a single case, the “battle” between Egypt and Ethiopia was a diplomatic dispute over the constructing of a dam and there was no precise preventing to finish.
There have additionally been clashes between Rwanda and the DRC after they signed a peace settlement in Washington DC.
