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 part of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement underway.
Amongst these gathered for the summit had 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 associated to the ceasefire 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 stated would “spell out numerous guidelines and laws and plenty of different issues.”
“This took 3,000 years to get thus far. Are you able to consider it? And it may maintain up too. It will maintain up,” Trump stated in the midst of signing the doc. The precise content material of the doc was not clear and the White Home has not but been made it publicly obtainable.
President Donald Trump poses with the signed settlement at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza warfare, 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 wherein touted the breakthrough as a turning level for the area.
“That is the day that folks throughout this area and around the globe have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. They’ve carried out issues during the last month that I feel had been actually unthinkable. No one thought this might occur. With the historic settlement we’ve simply signed, these prayers of thousands and thousands have lastly been answered,” Trump stated.
Noticeably absent from the signing ceremony and talks in Egypt, although, had been representatives of Hamas and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace cited the Jewish vacation as the rationale for his absence, regardless of him having been straight 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 warfare, 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 known as Trump Israel’s “best buddy” ever within the White Home.
On the Knesset, Trump additionally declared a “new daybreak within the Center East” and stated the warfare was Gaza over — regardless of challenges forward in making certain a long-lasting 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 taking part in out in Tel Aviv and Gaza as families reunited.
However many questions stay about what comes next, together with to what extent President Trump will probably be personally concerned in shaping a post-war Gaza.
Trump stated the second part 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 stated as he sat with el-Sisi upon his arrival in Sharm El-Sheikh. “Part two has began. And, , the phases are all slightly bit combined in with one another. You’re gonna begin cleansing up. You have a look at Gaza it wants numerous clean-up.”
In his speech later earlier than world leaders, Trump added: “Now, the rebuilding begins. The rebuilding is possibly going to be the simplest half. I feel we have carried out numerous the toughest half as a result of the remaining comes collectively. Everyone knows tips on how to rebuild, and we all know tips on how to construct higher than anyone on the earth.”
President Donald Trump speaks through the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit within the Egyptian Pink Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, October 13, 2025.
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets President Donald Trump forward of a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza warfare, 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 when you’re and it is going to be the most effective resolution that Iran has ever made, and it may occur,” Trump stated 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. You understand, they want some assist. They’ve massive sanctions, as , great sanctions. I might like to take the sanctions off once they’re prepared to speak,” Trump stated.
ABC Information’ Fritz Farrow contributed to this report.
