U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon addressed for the first time a special session of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.
“Thank you very much everybody. It’s a great honor—nice place,” Trump said in his opening remarks. “We gather on a day of profound joy. After two harrowing years and darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families—and it is glorious—28 more precious loved ones are coming home at last to rest in this sacred soil for all of time,” he continued.
“Today, the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still and the sun rises on a holy land that finally at peace and a region that will live, God-willing, in peace for all eternity,” said the American leader.
He declared that the ceasefire deal media