U.S. President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium disembarks from Air Force One upon accomplishment astatine Ben Gurion Airport connected the outskirts of Lod adjacent Tel Aviv connected October 13, 2025, arsenic helium travels to Israel and Egypt.
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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday declared the warfare successful the Middle East is over, arsenic helium began a momentous travel to the portion to finalize a bid woody for Gaza.
Trump arrived successful Tel Aviv earlier Monday to people the merchandise of Israeli hostages by Hamas aft much than 2 years successful captivity.
As helium arrived astatine the the Israeli parliament, the Knesset wherever helium was owed to speak, Trump told reporters that Hamas volition disarm, according to comments reported by Reuters. When asked whether the warfare was over, helium told reporters "yes."
Twenty Israeli hostages are expected to beryllium released successful full connected Monday, arsenic good arsenic 28 further captives — including 26 confirmed dormant and 2 whose presumption remains uncertain. In speech for the hostages, Israel is owed to merchandise astir 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
Trump volition code the Israeli parliament aft gathering with hostage families. He is past owed to question to Sharm El-Sheikh successful Egypt for a large planetary acme with astir 20 different satellite leaders to finalize an statement to extremity the warfare successful Gaza.
The archetypal signifier of Trump's bid woody for Gaza and the merchandise of Israeli hostages is being hailed arsenic a large humanitarian and geopolitical development, but 1 with a constricted economical impact.
"It shows that the U.S. tin get results if it wields its inactive unsurpassed planetary clout the close way," Holger Schmieding, main economist astatine Berenberg Bank noted Monday.
"The interaction connected the planetary system and markets should stay precise limited, though. If the Houthis halt disrupting shipping done the Red Sea, planetary transport costs whitethorn autumn slightly. If tensions successful the Middle East subside overmuch further, the planetary interaction could beryllium much pronounced successful the agelong tally – but that remains a precise large if," Schmieding noted.
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