US President Donald Trump said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped the war in Gaza because “the world was going to stop him.”

“He had to stop because the world was going to stop him. You know, I could see what was happening… Israel was becoming very unpopular. And that's what I meant when I said ‘the world.’ There are a lot of powers out there, okay, powers outside of the region,” he said in an interview with TIME magazine published on Thursday.

Trump added that he told Netanyahu Israel is a “very small place compared to the world.”

“And I said to Bibi, ‘Bibi, you can’t fight the world. You can fight individual battles, but the world’s against you. And Israel is a very small place compared to the world.”