Israel has also released almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees, with busloads greeted by huge crowds in the occupied West Bank.

JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump was in Israel on Monday to celebrate the U.S.-brokered ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas before continuing on to Egypt for a key summit that he hopes will solidify an end to the war and pave the way for a more durable peace in the Middle East.

Trump is in Israel amid the release of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas. Wedding season is caught up in government shutdown drama. It's not clear yet how Diane Keaton died. President Donald Trump addressed Israel's parliament Monday morning following the release of remaining hostages taken by Hamas in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks.

President Donald Trump, in a speech to Israel’s parliament, spotlighted mega-donor Miriam Adelson’s outsized influence on U.S. policy toward Israel, recalling her frequent White House visits with her late husband,

Hamas released all 20 remaining living hostages on Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that pummeled the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands of Palestinians.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has brought cautious calm to the region as aid begins to flow into the Gaza Strip.

U.S. President Donald Trump urged Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption, during an address to the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem.

Israel has won everything it can through force of arms and should now turn to peace, President Trump said during his speech to Israel’s parliament. “Israel, with our help, has won all that they can by force of arms.