Trump hints at 'action' if Hamas doesn't return hostage bodies

As President Donald Trump ended his one-hour-long speech to Israel’s Knesset on Monday, he said, “We have built industries together, we have made discoveries together, we have confronted evil together, we have waged war together, and perhaps most beautifully of all, we have made peace together.”

“And this week, against all odds, we have done the impossible, and brought our hostages home,” he said.

Trump’s address was met with frequent applause and standing ovations.
Trump will next travel to Egypt where he and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi are co-chairing an international peace summit.

President Donald Trump said his speech to Israel’s Knesset on Monday, “Israel has won all that can be won by force of arms. Now, it is time to translate these victories … into the ultimate prize of peace and prosperity for the entire Middle East.”

“People are dancing in the streets, not just in Israel,” Trump said.

“This long and difficult war has now ended,” Trump said, though only the first phase of a ceasefire agreement has been brokered.

Trump’s remarks were met with frequent applause and standing ovations.

Trump will next travel to Egypt where he and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi are co-chairing an international peace summit.

Ayman Udah, an Arab-Israeli from Israel’s Hadash party, and his colleague, Ofer Kassif, a Jewish Israeli, interrupted President Donald Trump’s speech to the Knesset and were ejected from the parliament.

They raised a both raised signs, one of which was said to have read "genocide." At least one of the signs also appeared to say "Recognize Palestine."

Trump’s remarks were otherwise met with frequent applause and standing ovations.

President Donald Trump said in his address to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, "This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age and terror and death."

"This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East. … Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change," he said.

Trump’s remarks were met with frequent applause and standing ovations, as well as a brief interruption by someone in the crowd.

At the Knesset for Trump's speech was his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, the latter having been involved in negotiations, as well as White House special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.

Many in the audience wore MAGA-style hats that read "Trump The Peace President."