Speaking before the Knesset, US President Donald Trump says it’s a “great honor.”
Trump says it is a day to give thanks to “the almighty God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
“Today the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still, and the sun rises on a Holy Land that is finally at peace,” says Trump, after praising the bravery of the 20 living hostages who returned to their families this morning.
He expresses his hope that “the region will live in peace for all eternity.”
It is not only the end of war, he says, “it is also the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God.”
It’s the start of an “age of concord” for Israel and the countries of the region, he promises. “It’s the historic dawn of the new Middle East,” he says.
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