US President Donald Trump on Monday during a meeting with journalists in the Israeli Parliament declared that The war between Israel and the Hamas Palestinian movement in the Gaza Strip is over. According to him, the militant Hamas movement will adhere to the agreed ceasefire, TASR reports according to The Times of Israel (Toi) and BBC.
- Donald Trump confirmed the end of the war between Israel and Hamas.
- Hamas undertook to comply with the ceasefire signed with Israel.
- The International Committee of the Red Cross received 20 released hostages.
- Trump expressed the joy of the ceasefire and a new beginning.
- The US President plans to perform before Israeli deputies.
“It’s a great day. It’s a brand new beginning and I think nothing like this has happened yet,” He declared Trump after Hamas handed over the remaining 20 living hostages to the employees of the Red Cross International Committee on Monday. They have been detained in the Palestinian enclave for more than two years.
“We are very happy for hostages … They’ll be happy and a great life is waiting for them,” Trump noted. When asked what happens to Hamas if he does not observe the ceasefire, he replied, “They will follow it.”
In Kneset, the Israeli Parliament, his chairman Amir Ochana welcomed the White House chief. “It’s a great honor for me. A great and beautiful day, a new beginning,” He wrote Trump in the book of visits to the Knesset.
The US President also plans to speak before Israeli deputies. It will become the fourth US president, who will do so since the foundation of Parliament in 1949, and the first since 2008, wrote the BBC.
