US President Donald Trump attends the official signing of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

When President Donald Trump flies home from the Middle East on Monday, the region fading from view out his windows will undoubtedly be a changed one: the hostages that suffered underground in Gaza the last two years are free, and the bombs that leveled the strip have stopped falling.

But even the valedictory set-pieces that had been arranged for him in Israel and Egypt could not mask the major uncertainty that still lingers — including the basic question of whether the Gaza war is, in fact, over.

Trump insists it is, and used a long and winding speech to the Israeli Knesset to praise his coun

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