Live updates: Trump speaks in Israel as last living hostages released by Hamas come back home

As President Trump was praising his particular envoy Steve Witkoff for his negotiating expertise, protesters interrupted the president’s speech within the Israeli Knesset. The people have been shortly ushered away.

“That was very environment friendly,” Mr. Trump mentioned. 

It isn’t clear what the protesters have been saying or whether or not they have been each Israeli legislators.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu mentioned it had “been a protracted journey” to achieve today. 

“In the beginning of the struggle, I promised to deliver all of the hostages dwelling,” Netanyahu mentioned. “At the moment, with the indispensable assist, the decided and centered assist, the unremitting assist of President Trump and his workforce, and with the unbelievable sacrifice and braveness of the troopers of Israel, we’re fulfilling that promise.” 

“Women and gents, this can be a momentous day, a day of nice pleasure, because the remaining hostages come dwelling,” he mentioned. 

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu mentioned it had “been a protracted journey” to achieve today. 

“In the beginning of the struggle, I promised to deliver all of the hostages dwelling,” Netanyahu mentioned. “At the moment, with the indispensable assist, the decided and centered assist, the unremitting assist of President Trump and his workforce, and with the unbelievable sacrifice and braveness of the troopers of Israel, we’re fulfilling that promise.” 

“Women and gents, this can be a momentous day, a day of nice pleasure, because the remaining hostages come dwelling,” he mentioned. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his file over the previous two years of struggle within the Gaza Strip as he addressed Israeli lawmakers beside President Trump on Monday. 

“In response to this barbaric assault on October seventh, Israel did what it needed to do. With indomitable braveness, we got down to defend our individuals, to defeat our enemies, and to launch our hostages. Our heroic troopers fought like lions,” Netanyahu mentioned. 

“Israel achieved wonderful victories over Hamas and the complete Iran terror axis. Sinwar, Haniyeh, Nasrallah, Assad, they’re all gone,” he mentioned, referring to slain leaders of Hamas and its ally, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, in addition to the longtime former chief of Syria. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the rostrum within the Knesset on Monday, delivering some remarks in English to thank President Trump for his assist for Israel over time. 

“Donald Trump is the best good friend that the state of Israel has ever had within the White Home,” Netanyahu mentioned to applause.

Netanyahu praised what he referred to as Mr. Trump’s “pivotal management” in brokering the Gaza peace deal.

“Mr. President, you’re dedicated to this peace, I’m dedicated to this peace, and collectively, Mr. President, we are going to obtain this peace,” Netanyahu mentioned.

Netanyahu remembered the lots of of Israelis killed on Oct. 7, the deadliest day in Israel’s historical past because the Holocaust. In response, “Israel did what it needed to do,” he mentioned. 

The primary Palestinian prisoners launched as a part of the ceasefire and hostage launch settlement between Hamas and Israel arrived Monday within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution. 

Dwell video confirmed prisoners disembarking from buses and being greeted by giant cheering crowds of individuals in Ramallah, the de-facto capital of the West Financial institution. 

About 2,000 Palestinian prisoner have been to be launched by Israel in whole.

The Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, Amir Ohana, hailed President Trump as “the perfect good friend that the state of Israel has ever had,” as he thanked Mr. Trump in Israel’s parliament Monday.

“I’m going to take off this pin, this memorial pin for the hostages, as a result of due to you, they’re dwelling,” Ohana mentioned, earlier than eradicating a pin from his go well with.  

“Mr. President, you stand earlier than the individuals of Israel not as one other American president however as a large of Jewish historical past,” Ohana mentioned. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t be touring to Egypt for the peace summit within the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the place the peace deal between Israel and Hamas is predicted to be signed later Monday.

Netanyahu had been invited to the convention by President Trump, his workplace mentioned Monday, and “The Prime Minister thanked President Trump for his invitation, however mentioned that he wouldn’t be capable to take part because of the proximity of the vacation.” 

The vacation the prime minister’s workplace seems to be referencing is Simchat Torah, a Jewish vacation that celebrates the Torah, which is marked on Oct. 14 and 15 this 12 months. 

President Trump was greeted by loud cheering and applause Monday as he arrived on the Israeli Knesset to deal with the assembled lawmakers.

Mr. Trump, seated on the podium beside Knesset speaker Amir Ohana and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, stood for the applause for himself and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  

President Trump is predicted to deal with the Israeli Knesset, the nation’s parliament, throughout his transient go to to mark the primary part of the Israeli-Hamas peace deal that his administration helped to dealer. 

It is possible for you to to look at the president’s remarks reside on CBS News 24/7 within the participant on the high of this web page. He’s anticipated to start talking very quickly.

Mr. Trump’s remarks to the Israeli lawmakers will come not lengthy after the Israeli navy confirmed the handover of the ultimate 13 residing hostages who had been held in Gaza. All residing hostages have now been freed and they’re again in Israel, in accordance with the navy.  

The president is believed to have met privately with the households of Israeli hostages earlier than delivering his remarks to the Knesset. He’ll go away later for Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the place he’ll take part in a Center East peace ceremony.  

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will journey to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, to attend a Center East peace summit together with President Trump on Monday, the workplace of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi mentioned in an announcement.

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take part within the peace summit to consolidate the ceasefire settlement in Gaza and reaffirm dedication to it,” mentioned the assertion posted on the Egyptian presidency’s Fb web page. 

The president’s workplace additionally confirmed that Palestinian Authority President Mahmmoud Abbas would attend the convention, the place the peace plan brokered by President Trump is predicted to be formally signed.

It was not clear whether or not Mr. Trump and Netanyahu would journey from Israel to the summit within the Egyptian resort collectively or individually.

By Ahmed Shawkat and Emmet Lyons 

The final 13 Israelis who have been kidnapped in the course of the Oct. 7, 2023 assault have been returned to Israel after being freed by Hamas within the Gaza Strip, Israel’s navy mentioned Monday. 

The Israeli navy confirmed in a social media submit that Matan Tsengauker, Maxim Harkin, Segev Kalfon, Yosef-Chaim Ohana, Nimrod Cohen, Avinantan Or, Eviatar David, Eitan Horn, David Kunio, Ariel Kunio, Elkana Buchbot, Bar Kuperstein and Rom Breslavsky have been with Israeli forces and had “lately crossed the border into Israeli territory.”

President Trump signed the visitor e book on the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, forward of a deliberate tackle to the assembled lawmakers on Monday. 

The White Home posted a photograph on social media of Mr. Trump holding up the visitor e book, displaying his signature, flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Amir Ohana, the Speaker of the Knesset. 

“That is my nice honor – An ideal and delightful day. A brand new starting,” Mr. Trump wrote within the Knesset visitor e book.

Israel’s navy confirmed Monday that the final 13 residing hostages in Gaza have been with Israeli troops and “making their method to Israeli territory.” 

The hostages had been handed over earlier to the Israel Protection Forces by Purple Cross personnel, after being launched by Hamas within the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis.

The stays of a few of the 48 deceased Israeli hostages nonetheless in Gaza are anticipated to be transferred to Israeli officers later Monday.  

The final 13 residing Israeli hostages in Gaza have been handed over to Purple Cross personnel, the Israeli navy said Monday, including that the group was “making their method to the IDF and Shin Wager forces within the Gaza Strip.”

President Trump’s senior envoy Steve Witkoff mentioned Monday that he had “questioned if I might ever see today,” calling it “deeply gratifying to know that so many households will lastly have their family members dwelling.”

“At the moment, twenty households are spared the insufferable ache of not understanding if they are going to ever see their family members once more. However even on this second of aid and happiness, my coronary heart aches for these whose family members won’t return alive,” Witkoff mentioned in a social media post. “Bringing their our bodies house is a should and an act of dignity and honors their reminiscence ceaselessly.”

Witkoff added that he was “profoundly grateful for the indomitable spirit of President Trump. At the present time wouldn’t have been doable with out him.”

The Israeli navy launched plenty of images on Monday displaying a few of the first seven hostages launched by Hamas talking with members of the navy and reunited with their households again in Israeli territory.

One of many first images confirmed former hostage Eitan Mor beaming in an embrace together with his dad and mom. Mor was among the many Israelis kidnapped from the Nova music pageant in southern Israel in the course of the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist assault. He was working safety on the pageant.

Different images confirmed Mor talking with Israeli forces earlier than being reunited together with his household.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has determined to award the “Order of the Nile” to President Trump, “in recognition of his notable contributions to supporting peace efforts, defusing conflicts, and most lately, his pivotal function in halting the struggle in Gaza,” the El-Sisi’s workplace mentioned in an announcement on Monday.

Mr. Trump was resulting from arrive in Cairo later within the day, after addressing Israeli lawmakers and assembly with the households of Israeli hostages.

The Order of the Nile is Egypt’s highest state honor. It was first established in 1915 and is at present awarded in two kinds, a Collar, which is bestowed upon heads of state and shall be given to President Trump, and the Grand Cordon, which is for different recipients.

By Ahmed Shawkat and Tucker Reals

President Trump has arrived in Israel. He was greeted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the tarmac of Ben Gurion Worldwide Airport earlier than making his method down a protracted pink carpet to greet others, together with his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, and Mr. Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff who, together with Kushner, helped negotiate the peace deal. 

The Israeli navy mentioned Purple Cross automobiles have been on their method Monday to a second assembly level, this one in southern Gaza, “the place a number of hostages shall be handed over to the Purple Cross.”

The primary group of seven Israel hostages have been handed over to the Purple Cross in northern Gaza earlier than being transferred to Israeli navy personnel after which pushed again into Israeli territory. 

Folks in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Sq. cheered Monday as a large tv display confirmed Air Drive One touchdown within the nation.

Somebody shouted over the loud speaker within the sq.: “Thanks, President Trump!”

Air Drive One touched down Monday at Ben Gurion Airport, not removed from Jerusalem, as President Trump arrived for a go to to mark the discharge of Israeli hostages by Hamas and to ship remarks to the nation’s assembled lawmakers within the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

President Trump, who is predicted to reach momentarily in Israel, claimed decisively on Sunday that the struggle in Gaza is over.

“The struggle is over,”  he instructed reporters aboard Air Drive One on the best way to Tel Aviv. “The struggle is over, okay? Do you perceive that?”

When requested if he thinks the ceasefire will maintain, he mentioned, “I believe so. I believe it’ll maintain.” 

“I believe individuals are, plenty of the reason why it’ll maintain, however I believe individuals are uninterested in it,” Mr. Trump mentioned.

Mr. Trump mentioned “over time,” Gaza will look “superb,” however offered no different particulars.

The Israel Protection Forces confirmed in a social media submit that the primary seven hostages launched by Hamas “have now crossed the border into Israeli territory with IDF and Shin Wager forces.”  

They have been on their method to an “preliminary reception level in southern Israel, the place they are going to reunite with their households,” the navy mentioned in an announcement.

President Trump boarded Air Drive One on Sunday afternoon to move to the Center East.

In a short comment to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the president mentioned, “So that is going to be a really particular time.” 

“In Israel and in addition the Muslim and Arab nations are all cheering,” Mr. Trump mentioned. He didn’t take any questions.

He is set to reach in Tel Aviv early Monday together with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, Director of the Central Intelligence Company John Ratcliffe and different administration officers.

Mr. Trump is predicted to fulfill with households of Israeli hostages earlier than delivering a speech to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem. He then will journey to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the worldwide peace summit.

— Kathryn Watson, Kiki Intarasuwan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace confirmed in an announcement on Monday the identities of the primary seven residing hostages launched by Hamas underneath the peace plan brokered by President Trump.

The assertion mentioned the households of Ohel Alon, Angrest Matan, Berman Gali, Berman Ziv, Gilboa-Dalal Man, Mor Eitan and Miran Omri “have been knowledgeable by the approved authorities that they’ve joined our forces within the Gaza Strip and can quickly make their method to Israeli territory.”

The Israeli navy has confirmed that the primary group of seven residing hostages has been transferred from the Purple Cross to Israeli personnel inside Gaza, they usually “at the moment are making their method to Israeli territory.”

The seven have been to bear quick medical checks upon reaching Israeli territory, the Israel Protection Forces said in a social media submit.

“The commanders and troopers of the IDF salute and embrace the returning hostages as they make their method dwelling to the State of Israel,” the IDF mentioned.

“In response to data acquired from the Purple Cross now, seven abductees have been transferred to them, and they’re making their method to the IDF and Shin Wager forces within the Gaza Strip,” the Israel Protection Forces mentioned in a social media post on Monday, indicating step one was full for the preliminary group of hostages to be transferred out of Hamas custody. 

“The IDF is ready to soak up further abductees who shall be transferred to the Purple Cross later,” the IDF mentioned.

Israel’s navy mentioned early Monday that Purple Cross automobiles have been headed to a gathering level in northern Gaza to fulfill “plenty of hostages”  set to be handed over by Hamas.

The Israel Protection Forces mentioned in a social media submit that it was “ready to soak up further hostages who shall be transferred to the Purple Cross later.”

It’s anticipated that the remaining hostages — 20 of the overall 48 of whom are believed to be alive — shall be handed over in a minimum of two separate teams.

Dozens, if not lots of of Israelis have been gathered in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Sq. forward of the anticipated return of the remaining hostages on Monday morning.

Waving Israeli flags and singing, the group gathered earlier than daybreak and continued to develop all through the morning. Because the solar was rising, many sang collectively and waved Israeli flags.

The discharge of the hostages nonetheless being held in Gaza is predicted to start round 8 a.m. native time, 1 a.m. ET, in accordance with a supply acquainted with the matter. A second spherical of hostages is then set to be launched round 10 a.m. native time, 3 a.m. ET, the supply mentioned. 

The 2 units of hostages are being launched from completely different areas inside Gaza, the supply mentioned.

Israel’s Sheba Medical Heart, which is positioned in Ramat Gan, outdoors of Tel Aviv, and is predicted to obtain hostages after they’re launched, famous that they might not arrive there till mid- to late morning on the earliest.

— Michal Ben-Gal, Jordan Freiman

Egyptian Overseas Minister Badr Abdelatty mentioned Sunday that Egypt is “assured that the primary part of the Trump peace plan shall be carried out” and shall be honored by all events concerned. 

“We’re very hopeful that the primary part shall be accomplished, in all honesty, from the 2 events, and we’re in full contact with the Palestinians, with the Hamas,” Abdelatty instructed “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.” 

Abdelatty confirmed that Egypt shall be sending troops to Gaza “inside particular parameters.” He additionally mentioned that Egypt helps the deployment of worldwide troops into Gaza for safety and stabilization.

“We’re assured, although now we have to attract classes from the previous, that with out fixing the Palestinian trigger, which is the core of the battle within the area, with out respecting the official aspirations of the Palestinians to have their very own statehood, you recognize, there is no such thing as a peace and stability within the area,” Abdelatty mentioned. 

Abdelatty indicated that President Trump’s peace plan referred to Palestinian statehood, though the ultimate model of the plan is unclear on Palestinian statehood. 

Watch Margaret Brennan’s full interview with Abdelatty here. 

Alana Zeitchik, a relative of Israeli hostage David Cunio, mentioned she is “nervous” concerning the situation he shall be in when he’s free of captivity.

Cunio’s spouse, Sharon Aloni Cunio, and his twin daughters have been held captive by Hamas and launched in November 2023.

Zeitchik mentioned Cunio’s spouse acquired steering on how you can inform her daughters that their father is coming dwelling and that they have been “in shock” after listening to the information.

Zeitchik instructed The Related Press: “We can’t actually be capable to exhale and have a sigh of aid till he’s again on Israeli soil.”

Tens of 1000’s of Palestinians started their trek again to the closely destroyed northern Gaza Strip over the weekend after the ceasefire deal went into impact.

A gradual stream of individuals, many on foot, crammed onto a coastal street within the central Gaza Strip, heading north to see what would possibly stay of their properties. It was a repeat of emotional scenes from an earlier ceasefire in January.

Palestinians expressed aid that the struggle might finish, although they’re tempered with considerations concerning the future and lingering ache from the staggering demise and destruction.

“There wasn’t a lot pleasure, however the ceasefire considerably eased the ache of demise and bloodshed, and the ache of our family members and brothers who suffered within the struggle,” Jamal Mesbah, who was displaced from the north, instructed the AP.

The destruction they discover this time shall be even higher, after Israel waged a brand new offensive in Gaza Metropolis, within the north, in current weeks.

—CBS/AP