(JERUSALEM) — In a speech to Israel’s parliament on a day when the country’s living 20 hostages were released as part a ceasefire agreement he helped broker, President Donald Trump told the Knesset, “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”

“This will be the remembered as the moment that everything began to change,” Trump said in an hourlong address in which he touted his administration’s role in the deal and said it marked the end of a “painful nightmare” for Israel and Palestinians.

The hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, were returned to Israel on Monday, officials said, and Palestinian prisoners were freed in the first phase of the ceasefire deal aimed at putting a permanent end to the fighting.

“This long and difficult war has now ended,” Trump declared, though ch

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