President Donald Trump joined greater than 20 world leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday for talks on Gaza’s future with the primary section of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire settlement underway.
Amongst these gathered for the summit have been Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and former prime minister Tony Blair, in addition to officers from Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
The group posed for a household image in entrance an indication that learn “Peace 2025” earlier than a signing ceremony on the settlement.
Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, with world leaders seated behind them, formally signed the doc that Trump mentioned would “spell out a whole lot of guidelines and laws and plenty of different issues.”
“This took 3,000 years to get up to now. Are you able to imagine it? And it is going to maintain up too. It should maintain up,” Trump mentioned in the midst of signing the paperwork.
President Donald Trump poses with the signed settlement at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza struggle, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.
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President Donald Trump attends through the signature ceremony on the Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.
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Trump additionally delivered remarks during which touted the breakthrough as a turning level for the area.
“That is the day that folks throughout this area and world wide have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. They’ve performed issues over the past month that I feel have been actually unthinkable. No person thought this might occur. With the historic settlement we now have simply signed, these prayers of tens of millions have lastly been answered,” Trump mentioned.
Noticeably absent from the signing ceremony and talks in Egypt, although, have been representatives of Hamas and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace cited the Jewish vacation as the explanation for his absence, regardless of him having been immediately invited by President Trump.
World leaders together with U.S. President Donald Trump and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pose for a household picture, at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza struggle, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.
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Simply hours earlier than, Trump and Netanyahu heaped reward on each other as Trump addressed Israel’s parliament. Trump hailed Netanyahu as “one of many best” wartime leaders and Netanyahu referred to as Trump Israel’s “best pal” ever within the White Home.
On the Knesset, Trump additionally declared a “new daybreak within the Center East” and mentioned the struggle was Gaza over — regardless of challenges forward in making certain an enduring peace.
Hamas launched the remaining 20 residing Israeli hostages on Monday and Israel freed Palestinian prisoners as a part of the ceasefire settlement, with emotional scenes enjoying out in Tel Aviv and Gaza as households reunited.
However many questions stay about what comes subsequent, together with to what extent President Trump can be personally concerned in shaping a post-war Gaza.
Trump mentioned the second section of his proposed peace plan is in progress, although did not present a lot element.
“Effectively, it began. I imply, it began so far as we’re involved,” Trump mentioned as he sat with el-Sisi upon his arrival in Sharm El-Sheikh. “Part two has began. And, , the phases are all slightly bit blended in with one another. You’re gonna begin cleansing up. You take a look at Gaza it wants a whole lot of clean-up.”
In his speech later earlier than world leaders, Trump added: “Now, the rebuilding begins. The rebuilding is perhaps going to be the best half. I feel we have performed a whole lot of the toughest half as a result of the remaining comes collectively. Everyone knows how one can rebuild, and we all know how one can construct higher than anyone on the earth.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets President Donald Trump forward of a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza struggle, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.
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The U.S. president additionally appeared to set his sights subsequent on Iran, urging the nation to make use of this chance to work with the administration on a peace deal.
“We’re prepared if you end up and will probably be the perfect determination that Iran has ever made, and it is going to occur,” Trump mentioned throughout his speech on the Knesset.
Trump reiterated that time as he took reporter questions alongside Egypt’s president.
“I feel Iran will come alongside. They have been battered and bruised. , they want some assist. They’ve massive sanctions, as , super sanctions. I might like to take the sanctions off once they’re prepared to speak,” Trump mentioned.
ABC Information’ Fritz Farrow contributed to this report.
