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US President Donald Trump on Monday declared the two-year long war in Gaza is over, suggesting normalisation of ties in the region is underway.

"The war is over," Trump told reportes aboard Air Force One as he begun his trip from Washington to Israel, where he will address the Knesset. "I think the ceasefire will hold, we have a lot of verbal guarantees," he added.

The leader is set to receive a hero's welcome in the Israeli parliament after he brokered a deal that allows return of the last remaining hostages from Gaza and an end to a war that has killed over 67,000 Palestinians and flattened the tiny enclave along the Mediterranean Sea.

Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israel will

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