On the day Israel and Hamas exchanged captives and detainees as part of the Gaza deal, United States President Donald Trump framed the agreement he helped broker as a “historic dawn of a new Middle East”.

“This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God,” Trump told the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, on Monday.

Trump’s address focused on his administration’s efforts to produce an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which included a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of 20 Israeli captives, 250 Palestinian political prisoners and about 1,700 Gaza detainees held without charges. Many of the Palestinians were “forcefully disappeared” from Gaza by Israel.

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