Donald TrumpHis team tried to claim credit for Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire a few hours after the president Joe Biden announced it from the White House.

The Biden administration He reportedly briefed the president-elect’s national security team to brief them on the deal and commitments made, but Trump officials were not directly involved in the negotiations, according to a senior Biden administration official.

the business, which marks a major breakthrough in devastating conflict that spanned the Middle East, was actually brokered by Biden, who called it a “historic” moment for the world.

“Today’s announcement is an essential step … and so I applaud the courageous decision taken by the leaders of Lebanon and Israel to end the violence,” he said in remarks at the Rose Garden on Tuesday.

“It reminds us that peace is possible. Say that again, peace is possible.”

Despite this, Trump’s future national security adviser, Mike Waltz, was quick to credit the president-elect for the deal.

“Everyone is coming to the table because of President Trump,” Waltz wrote in a post on X. “His resounding victory sent a clear message to the rest of the world that chaos will not be tolerated. I am glad to see concrete steps towards de-escalation in the Middle East.”

Waltz, whose position in the incoming Trump administration does not require Senate approval, has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration’s national security policy.

“I’ve never in my life seen the world fall apart like it is under Joe Biden,” Waltz said said Florida politics in July. “We had a president who defeated ISIS, broke Iran, stood by Israel, always stood by our allies, made China pay. You haven’t seen any spy balloons under President Trump, have you?

Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the president-elect’s closest alliesmeanwhile, he praised the Biden administration’s efforts to push through the cease-fire agreement — but also credited Trump.

“Well done to everyone involved in reaching this agreement,” he said in a post on X. “I appreciate the hard work of the Biden Administration, supported by President Trump, to make this ceasefire a reality.”

One of Trump’s former National Security Council officials from his first administration, Richard Goldberg, also claimed that Hezbollah is pulling back because of the future Republican.

“There’s no question that Iran is pulling back to regroup before Trump takes office,” he said. “It’s a combination of Israeli military success and the election of Trump — the ayatollah has no clothes and he knows we know.”

White House officials now hope that calm in Lebanon will reinvigorate efforts to end it the devastating war in Gaza, where Hamas still holds dozens of hostages and the conflict is harder to resolve.

The US is expected to lead a five-country monitoring committee to enforce the ceasefire, while the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (Unifil) will be reinforced.

“In the coming days, the United States will make another push with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and others to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with a release of the hostages,” Biden said Tuesday.

So far, Trump has remained publicly silent ceasefire, but during the campaign it was previously boasted that, once in office, he would quickly end the war between Israel and Hamas.

The Associated Press contributed to this report