Former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told Newsmax on Wednesday the big reason Iranian-backed terror groups Hezbollah and Hamas are reaching out for peace deals is because they know President-elect Donald Trump will be less sympathetic to their cause than the Biden administration.

A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah took effect earlier Wednesday after more than a year since Hezbollah began firing rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel following Hamas’ terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

Israel responded by wiping out all of Hezbollah’s senior leadership — many through exploding pagers — as well as destroying most of its missile-launching capacity.

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