Hamas releases 20 remaining living Israeli hostages
...As US president receives standing ovation in Knesset as hostages come home and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are released
...As US president receives standing ovation in Knesset as hostages come home and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are released
The Guardian --------- US president Donald Trump has arrived in Egypt for a summit on Gaza’s future after visiting Israel to celebrate the ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Trump praised Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday as the two leaders appeared together before an international summit on the Gaza deal. “He played a very important role. I appreciate it very much,” Trump said of Sisi, whom he called as a powerful leader who keeps crime down in his country.
Sisi held a meeting on Monday with the presidents of France and Turkey, and Qatar’s emir and others to help coordinate the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire and reconstruction efforts for the territory, according to a statement by the Egyptian president’s office. The meeting was held on the sidelines of an international summit in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
All 20 remaining living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas after more than two years in captivity in Gaza. Hostages were handed over to the Red Cross before finally rejoining their families with the help of the Israeli army.
Hamas has handed over the remains of two deceased hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, an official involved in the operation said on Monday. Hamas’s armed wing earlier said it would hand over the bodies of four hostages.
Huge crowds welcomed buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners have arrived in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Israel says it has released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, which was brokered with help from the US, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.
Hamas has started deploying armed fighters and police across parts of Gaza in an apparent attempt to reassert authority in the devastated Palestinian territory after the ceasefire deal agreed with Israel last week. Images showed dozens of Hamas fighters at a hospital in southern Gaza during the release of Israeli hostages on Monday morning and there were reports of shootings and executions elsewhere in the territory.
A last-minute plan by Donald Trump to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to a multinational Gaza summit in Egypt had to be aborted after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said he would not land his plane in Sharm el-Sheikh if the invitation stood. The mid-air power power struggle started after it was announced that the Israeli prime minister had accepted a late invitation from Trump to the conference being jointly chaired by the US president and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in Egypt.
During a visit to Israel, Trump declared that the ceasefire agreement marks the end of Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as the end of the “age of terror and death”. Speaking to the Knesset, the US president said: “This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of the age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God.”
Trump says he wants a peace deal with Iran, after the US oined Israel in striking the country’s nuclear sites during a brief war over the summer. “They got it from one side, from the other, and you know it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them,” Trump said.
Trump said that in Lebanon “the dagger of Hezbollah” aimed at Israel has been “totally shattered”. “My administration is actively supporting the new president of Lebanon and his mission to permanently disarm Hezbollah’s… brigades.”
At least 67,869 Palestinian people have been killed and 170,105 others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Monday. Most of the people killed have been civilians, many of whom were women and children.
Trump praised Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday as the two leaders appeared together before an international summit on the Gaza deal. “He played a very important role. I appreciate it very much,” Trump said of Sisi, whom he called as a powerful leader who keeps crime down in his country.
Sisi held a meeting on Monday with the presidents of France and Turkey, and Qatar’s emir and others to help coordinate the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire and reconstruction efforts for the territory, according to a statement by the Egyptian president’s office. The meeting was held on the sidelines of an international summit in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
All 20 remaining living Israeli hostages have been released by Hamas after more than two years in captivity in Gaza. Hostages were handed over to the Red Cross before finally rejoining their families with the help of the Israeli army.
Hamas has handed over the remains of two deceased hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, an official involved in the operation said on Monday. Hamas’s armed wing earlier said it would hand over the bodies of four hostages.
Huge crowds welcomed buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners have arrived in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank. Israel says it has released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, which was brokered with help from the US, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.
Hamas has started deploying armed fighters and police across parts of Gaza in an apparent attempt to reassert authority in the devastated Palestinian territory after the ceasefire deal agreed with Israel last week. Images showed dozens of Hamas fighters at a hospital in southern Gaza during the release of Israeli hostages on Monday morning and there were reports of shootings and executions elsewhere in the territory.
A last-minute plan by Donald Trump to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to a multinational Gaza summit in Egypt had to be aborted after the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said he would not land his plane in Sharm el-Sheikh if the invitation stood. The mid-air power power struggle started after it was announced that the Israeli prime minister had accepted a late invitation from Trump to the conference being jointly chaired by the US president and his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, in Egypt.
During a visit to Israel, Trump declared that the ceasefire agreement marks the end of Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as the end of the “age of terror and death”. Speaking to the Knesset, the US president said: “This is not only the end of a war. This is the end of the age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God.”
Trump says he wants a peace deal with Iran, after the US oined Israel in striking the country’s nuclear sites during a brief war over the summer. “They got it from one side, from the other, and you know it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them,” Trump said.
Trump said that in Lebanon “the dagger of Hezbollah” aimed at Israel has been “totally shattered”. “My administration is actively supporting the new president of Lebanon and his mission to permanently disarm Hezbollah’s… brigades.”
At least 67,869 Palestinian people have been killed and 170,105 others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Monday. Most of the people killed have been civilians, many of whom were women and children.
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