President Donald Trump received messages of gratitude and praise from world leaders on Monday for successfully negotiating with Hamas to release its Israeli hostages .

Every living Israeli hostage was freed Monday after Hamas agreed to Trump’s plan for peace . The 20 hostages are survivors of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 , terrorist attack on Israel.

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In a speech to the Knesset attended by Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Trump as the “greatest friend the state of Israel has ever had in the White House.”

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