“Generations from now, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change.”

Donald Trump has hailed the “historic dawn of a new Middle East” in an address to the Israeli parliament to mark the ceasefire deal in Gaza.

Just hours after the first Israeli hostages were released by Hamas, the US President stood to a long standing ovation at the Knesset and celebrated “an incredible triumph for Israel and the world to have all of these nations working together as partners in peace.”

“After so many years of unceasing war and endless danger, today, the skies are calm, the guns are silent, sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy land that is finally at peace,” he said.

Mr Trump told Israel that it had won all it could by military force.

“Now, it is time to translate th

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