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U.S. President Donald Trump departed connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) connected a high-stakes bid travel to Israel and Egypt, declaring the "war is over" successful Gaza contempt uncertainty astir what volition travel a ceasefire and hostage woody with Hamas.
Mr. Trump's lightning sojourn is designed to observe his relation successful brokering past week's ceasefire and hostage merchandise woody - but it comes astatine a precarious clip arsenic Israel and Hamas negociate what comes next.
The 79-year-old President is owed to get successful Israel soon aft the expected merchandise of the hostages by Hamas. He volition code parliament earlier heading to Egypt to big a large bid summit.
"The warfare is over. Okay? You recognize that?" Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One erstwhile asked if helium was assured that the struggle betwixt Israel and Palestinian militant radical Hamas was finished.
Speaking earlier helium boarded astatine Joint Base Andrews adjacent Washington, Mr. Trump added that the sojourn was going to beryllium a "very peculiar time."
"Everybody's precise excited astir this infinitesimal successful time. This is simply a precise peculiar event," said Mr. Trump, holding an umbrella arsenic airy rainfall fell.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA main John Ratcliffe and apical US subject serviceman Dan Caine were travelling with him connected the statesmanlike jet.
Mr. Trump, whose sanction was chanted by crowds successful Israel connected Saturday, said the signifier 1 statement that helium announced past week had radical "cheering" successful some Israel and successful Muslim and Arab countries.
"Everybody's cheering astatine 1 time, that's ne'er happened before. Usually if you person 1 cheering the different isn't, the different is the opposite," Mr. Trump said.
"This is the archetypal clip everybody is amazed and they're thrilled and it's an grant to beryllium involved," helium said, adding that "we're going to person an astonishing time."
'Tired of the fighting'
After arriving successful Israel, Mr. Trump is owed to conscionable the families of hostages seized by Hamas successful its October 7, 2023 cross-border attack, which near 1,219 radical dead, astir of them civilians, and triggered Israel's devastating Gaza campaign.
He volition past present remarks to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament successful Jerusalem, becoming the 4th U.S. President to bash so. He is owed to walk little than 4 hours connected Israeli soil.
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Mr. Trump volition past caput to Egypt wherever helium and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi volition co-host a acme of much than 20 satellite leaders to backmost his program to extremity the Gaza warfare and beforehand Middle East peace.
The two-term President has already claimed the Gaza woody arsenic a large idiosyncratic victory, with his travel to the portion intelligibly aimed astatine proclaiming his occurrence successful freeing hostages held by Hamas.
But Mr. Trump volition besides beryllium looking to resoluteness immoderate of the immense uncertainty astir the adjacent phases of the Gaza woody and securing a longer-term solution for the Middle East.
Mr. Trump has said helium volition preside implicit a "Board of Peace" arsenic portion of his 20-part plan, but helium has remained vague astir however the adjacent steps volition play out.
Many of the astir important issues person yet to beryllium hammered out, ranging from Hamas's refusal to disarm, and Israel's nonaccomplishment to pledge a afloat withdrawal from the devastated territory.
Mr. Trump said lone past week that helium was assured of bid due to the fact that "they're each bushed of the fighting."
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said connected Sunday that Mr. Trump would exert "consistent leverage and accordant pressure" connected each parties.
