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2. Trump speaks at Israeli Knesset after peace deal takes effect 

Trump spoke to Israel's Knesset on Monday as a peace deal that involved the release of all 20 Israeli hostages held in captivity by the terrorist organization Hamas took effect.

"After two harrowing years in darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families," Trump proclaimed. "Twenty-eight more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time." 

"After so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, 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," he added. Trump described the implementation of the peace deal, which comes almost two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack that first launched a war between Israel and Hamas, as "not only the end of a war" but also "the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God." 

In addition to praising the peace deal as "the start of a great concord and lasting harmony for Israel and all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region," Trump predicted that the recent developments will mark "the historic dawn of a new Middle East."