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On the day Israel and Hamas exchanged captives and detainees as part of the Gaza deal, United States President Donald Trump framed the agreement he helped broker as a \u201chistoric dawn of a new Middle East\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God,\u201d Trump told the Knesset, Israel\u2019s parliament, on Monday.<\/p>\n
list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/p>\n Trump\u2019s address focused on his administration\u2019s efforts to produce an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which included a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of 20 Israeli captives, 250 Palestinian political prisoners and about 1,700 Gaza detainees held without charges. Many of the Palestinians were \u201cforcefully disappeared\u201d from Gaza by Israel.<\/p>\n The future phases of Trump\u2019s\u00a020-point plan\u00a0that could lead to a lasting peace are complicated and uncertain. After his speech, Trump flew to Egypt to sign the deal with world leaders at a summit that launched the first phase of the agreement.<\/p>\n Under the plan, Arab and international partners will develop a stabilisation force to deploy in Gaza, while day-to-day governance would shift from Hamas to a Palestinian committee. The committee will include Palestinians and international experts, with oversight by the \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d, chaired by Trump and including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.<\/p>\n Trump, the fourth US president to address the Knesset, praised his handpicked negotiator, Steve Witkoff, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio while taking swipes at his Democratic predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. He also called for Israel\u2019s president, Isaac Herzog, to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has faced a years-long corruption case.<\/p>\n Here are fact-checks of some of Trump\u2019s comments:<\/p>\n The agreement signed on Monday is widely considered a landmark moment in a decades-long conflict, and Trump was a key player. But his repeated talking point about solving eight wars is exaggerated.<\/p>\n Trump had a hand in ceasefires that have recently eased conflicts between Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, and Armenia and Azerbaijan. But these were mostly incremental accords, and some leaders dispute the extent of Trump\u2019s role.<\/p>\n Peace has not held in other conflicts. The US was involved in a temporary peace deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, but violence in the region has continued, with hundreds of civilians killed since the deal\u2019s June signing. After Trump helped broker a deal between Cambodia and Thailand, the countries have accused each other of ceasefire violations that have led to violent skirmishes.<\/p>\n A long-running standoff between Egypt and Ethiopia over an Ethiopian dam on the Nile remains unresolved, and it is closer to a diplomatic dispute than a military clash. In the case of Kosovo and Serbia, there is little evidence that a potential war was brewing.<\/p>\n Trump has made notable progress by securing the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and captive agreement, but the deal involves multiple stages, so it will take time to see if peace holds.<\/p>\n People gather to greet freed Palestinian detainees arriving on buses in the Gaza Strip after their release from Israeli jails, outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on October 13, 2025 [Jehad Alshrafi\/AP Photo]<\/p>\n It is impossible to know whether Operation Midnight Hammer \u2013 in which the US bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in June to undercut Iran\u2019s nuclear weapons capabilities \u2013 succeeded in \u201cobliterating\u201d those sites, because US and allied intelligence is not necessarily available to the public.<\/p>\n More than three months after the US attack on Fordow, a major underground Iranian nuclear site, it\u2019s not clear how much damage US bombs created. Officials haven\u2019t publicly released a definitive damage assessment.<\/p>\n An August 20 analysis by The New York Times said subsequent assessments have found an increasing likelihood that significant damage resulted from the strike. However, the Times concluded that \u201cwith so many variables \u2013 and so many unknowns \u2013 it may be difficult to ever really be certain.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump omits that Iran had largely complied with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in which the country agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons and allow continuous monitoring of its compliance in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. The agreement was set to expire in 10 to 25 years.<\/p>\n Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and did not renegotiate the agreement\u00a0as he promised.<\/p>\n Many experts\u00a0praised the pact\u00a0for keeping nuclear weapons out of Tehran\u2019s hands. The\u00a0International Atomic Energy Agency\u00a0said it found Iran committed no violations, aside from minor infractions that were addressed.<\/p>\n After dropping out of the compact, the US imposed economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, and Iran reduced its compliance with the deal.<\/p>\n People react as they gather to watch a live broadcast of Israeli captives released from Gaza at a plaza known as Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 13, 2025 [Oded Balilty\/AP Photo]<\/p>\n The two Democratic presidents had somewhat strained relationships with Netanyahu, who has often courted US Republican leaders, but during their tenures, the US continued to support Israeli foreign policy and its military.<\/p>\n Osamah Khalil, Syracuse University history professor and expert on the modern Middle East, said it\u2019s untrue that Obama or Biden \u201cheld a personal animus toward Israel, especially Biden\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIndeed, both administrations oversaw expansions in US military assistance and coordination with Israel,\u201d Khalil said. \u201cIn 2016, Obama signed the largest US military aid package in history.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2016, the US and Israel signed a 10-year, $38bn memorandum of understanding. It cited several priorities, including updating the Israeli air fleet and maintaining the country\u2019s missile defence system.<\/p>\n Military funding for Israel continued under Biden. In the two years since October 7, 2023, the US government spent $21.7bn on military aid to Israel.<\/p>\n Biden ordered US troops to be deployed in and around Israel and Gaza and shielded Israel at the UN by blocking many ceasefire resolutions, Khalil said.<\/p>\n Obama\u2019s presidency ended years before the\u00a0Abraham Accords\u00a0were signed.<\/p>\n The 2020 agreement during Trump\u2019s first term brought together the leaders of Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. The countries\u00a0agreed\u00a0to peace and cooperation with Israel, establishing embassies, preventing hostilities and fostering tourism and trade.<\/p>\n The Biden administration tried to bring Saudi Arabia into the accord, but this effort languished after Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023 triggered Israel\u2019s brutal war on Gaza. A United Nations inquiry commission has called the Israeli actions in Gaza a genocide.<\/p>\n After Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, \u201cthe idea of official Israeli-Saudi relations became much harder,\u201d said Jeremy Pressman, a University of Connecticut political science professor and expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict.<\/p>\n During this war, Israel killed more than 68,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, and destroyed 92 percent of all residential buildings in Gaza \u2013 home to 2.3 million people.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the day Israel and Hamas exchanged captives and detainees as part of the Gaza deal, United States President Donald Trump framed the agreement he helped broker as a \u201chistoric dawn of a new Middle East\u201d. \u201cThis is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[964,9291,2313,150,1321,1053,81,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-27941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-donald","9":"tag-factchecking","10":"tag-israeli","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-parliament","13":"tag-speech","14":"tag-trump","15":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Trump said he \u2018settled eight wars in eight months\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran\u2019s key nuclear facilities, totally, as I said originally, obliterating them. That\u2019s been confirmed.\u2019<\/h2>\n
\u2018The Iran nuclear deal turned out to be a disaster.\u2019<\/h2>\n
Under the Obama and Biden administrations, \u2018there was a hatred toward Israel, it was an absolute hatred\u2019<\/h2>\n
Obama and Biden \u2018did nothing with this incredible document, the Abraham Accords\u2019<\/h2>\n