"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," Trump will ...

US President Donald Trump has told cheering Israeli lawmakers that "this is the historic dawn of a new Middle East", after helping to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is equally exuberant about the present, but far more measured in his assessments going forward.

An Israeli lawmaker was removed from the Israeli parliamentary chamber after interrupting President Donald Trump’s speech, which coincided with the release of 20 living hostages from Gaza and the return of the first Palestinian prisoners from Israeli detention.

Hamas is due to release the 48 hostages remaining in Gaza by noon local time (09:00 GMT).

Speaking to reporters during the flight, Trump declared that the war was over.

President Donald Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East on Monday during a global summit on Gaza’s future, trying to advance broader peace in the region after visiting Israel to cel...