US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he plans to travel to Egypt for a ceremony marking the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement, a deal widely praised as a potential breakthrough in the long-standing Israel-Hamas conflict. Speaking during a White House cabinet meeting, Trump said, “I’m going to try and make a trip over. We’re going to try and get over there, and we’re working on the timing, the exact timing.”

The announcement came as Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi commended Trump’s efforts in brokering the truce and said he “deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.” According to a statement from Cairo, Sisi personally invited Trump to attend “the celebration to be held in Egypt to mark the conclusion of the agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip,” which was f

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