U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday before boarding Air Force One en route to Miami. | AFP-JIJI

DUBAI/DORAL, Florida – President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the U.S. would start an effort on Monday morning to free ships stranded in the Strait of Hormuz as a "humanitarian gesture" to aid neutral countries in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

Trump provided few details about the plan, which he said would aid ships and their crews that have been "locked up" in the strait and are running low on food and other supplies as Iran blocks access through the crucial waterway.

"We have told these Countries that we will guide their Ships safely out of these restricted Waterways, so that they can freely and ably get on with their business," Trump said in ​a post on his Truth Social site.

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