Trump, world leaders gather in Egypt for ceasefire deal signing with Netanyahu absent

[ad_1] 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 of 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 lots of guidelines and rules and plenty of different issues."

"This took 3,000 years to get so far. Are you able to consider it? And it is going to maintain up too. It'll maintain up,” Trump stated in the course of signing the doc, the textual content of which was later launched by the White Home.

President Donald Trump poses with the signed settlement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza battle, 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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The memorandum, dubbed "The Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity," laid out broad commitments the 4 leaders agreed to uphold in backing Trump's peace plan however appeared largely symbolic.

"We perceive that lasting peace can be one wherein each Palestinians and Israelis can prosper with their basic human rights protected, their safety assured, and their dignity upheld," the memo acknowledged.

"We hereby decide to the decision of future disputes by diplomatic engagement and negotiation relatively than by power or protracted battle. We acknowledge that the Center East can't endure a persistent cycle of extended warfare, stalled negotiations, or the fragmentary, incomplete, or selective software of efficiently negotiated phrases," it stated.

President Donald Trump attends in the course of the signature ceremony on the Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

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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 Trump.

World leaders together with U.S. President Donald Trump and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pose for a household photograph, at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza battle, 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 biggest” wartime leaders and Netanyahu known as Trump Israel's "biggest pal" ever within the White Home.

On the Knesset, Trump additionally declared a "new daybreak within the Center East" and stated the battle in Gaza was over -- regardless of challenges forward in guaranteeing a long-lasting peace.

Trump additionally delivered remarks in Egypt wherein touted the breakthrough as a turning level for the area.

"That is the day that individuals throughout this area and around the globe have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. They've finished issues over the past month that I believe have been actually unthinkable. No person thought this might occur. With the historic settlement we've got simply signed, these prayers of thousands and thousands have lastly been answered," Trump stated.

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 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 stated 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 stated as he sat with el-Sisi upon his arrival in Sharm El-Sheikh. "Part two has began. And, you already know, the phases are all a bit of bit combined in with one another. You’re gonna begin cleansing up. You have a look at Gaza it wants lots 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 simplest half. I believe we have finished lots of the toughest half as a result of the remainder comes collectively. Everyone knows how one can rebuild, and we all know how one can construct higher than anyone on the earth."

President Donald Trump speaks in the course of the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit within the Egyptian Crimson 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 battle, 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 find yourself and will probably be the very best resolution that Iran has ever made, and it is going to occur," Trump stated throughout his speech on the Knesset.

Trump reiterated that time as he took reporter questions alongside Egypt's president.

"I believe Iran will come alongside. They have been battered and bruised. You recognize, they want some assist. They've massive sanctions, as you already know, large sanctions. I would like to take the sanctions off after they're prepared to speak," Trump stated.