U.S. President Donald Trump joined over 20 world leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday for a discussion on the future of Gaza and to sign documents, making the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement official.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and former prime minister Tony Blair, as well as officials from Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey, all gathered for the event.
Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, along with other world leaders, signed the documents to make the ceasefire official.
“This will spell out a lot of rules and regulations and lots of other things,” Trump said.
“This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it? And it’s going to hold up too. It’s going to hold up,” Trump said as he signed the paperwork.
The White House has not confirmed the exact contents of the document.
“This is the day that people across this region and around the world have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. They have done things over the last month that I think were really unthinkable. Nobody thought this could happen. With the historic agreement we have just signed, those prayers of millions have finally been answered,” Trump said.
Absent from the signing ceremony were representatives of Hamas and Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office cited the Jewish holiday as the reason for his absence despite being personally invited to Egypt by Trump.
Earlier, Trump and Netanyahu praised each other while Trump addressed Israel’s parliament.
Trump referred to Netanyahu as “one of the greatest” wartime leaders, and Netanyahu called Trump Israel’s “greatest friend” ever in the White House.
Speaking at the Knesset, Trump also declared a “new dawn in the Middle East” and said the war in Gaza was over — despite challenges ahead.
