President Donald Trump celebrated “peace in the Middle East” after he signed the historic peace agreement that ended two years of fighting in Gaza.
“At long last, we have peace in the Middle East, and it’s a very simple expression, peace in the Middle East,” Trump said during remarks at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, flanked by dozens of world leaders.
“We’ve heard it for many years, but nobody thought it could ever get there. And now we’re there.”
Trump went on: “This is the day that people across this region and around the world have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for. With the historic agreement we have just signed, those prayers of millions have finally been answered. Together, we have achieved the impossible.”
His remarks came after Hamas released the final remaining 20 living hostages on Monday as Israel backed off its frontline positioning in Gaza over the weekend.
Now, according to Trump, mediators will begin work on phases two, three and four of the 20-point peace plan.
“This breakthrough that we’re here to celebrate tonight is more than the end of the war in Gaza, it’s, with God’s help, it’ll be the new beginning for an entire beautiful Middle East,” Trump went on.
He expressed optimism that more Arab and Muslim-majority nations would join the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization deals with Israel, as he took a shot at the Biden administration for failing to advance the deals.
“We’re going to get a lot of people joining the Abraham Accords. We have the four great nations that did it early on, and they stayed with it. And then you had the Biden administration, which is the worst administration in the history of our country. And obviously they did nothing on that in anything else.”
During Trump’s first administration, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan and the United Arab Emirates joined the Abraham Accords.
