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The day a ceasefire was declared in Gaza should have brought Motasem Dalloul relief. Instead, after losing his wife and two children in Israeli attacks last year, the prominent journalist learned that another one of his sons had been killed while trying to find food.
“I learned of the martyrdom of my son Ibrahim just hours after [US President Donald] Trump announced the ceasefire.
“He is my third son to be killed by Israel since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza,” said Daloul, speaking to Middle East Eye.
The journalist remained steadfast in Gaza City, refusing to evacuate to the south throughout the two-year war, even as Israel threatened residents and invaded the city.
Dalloul and his family were displaced 13 times, and until recently they had been living in a tent in the al-Rimal neighbourhood.
Read more: ‘My joy was shattered’: Journalist grieves killing of third son as ceasefire arrives too late
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that his country is ready to help monitor the implementation of the ceasefire and in the "decomissioning of Hamas capability and weaponry".
Addressing the Gaza summit in Egypt, Starmer said the UK "stands ready" to "play its full part", in ensuring an enduring ceasefire, citing the country's experience in decommissioning paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland.
Hamas official Bassem Naim said previously in an interview with Sky News that the group would hand over its weapons to the military of a Palestinian state that includes its members.
"No one has the right to deny us the right to resist the occupation," Naim said.
Hamas said it would release the bodies belonging to four Israeli captives on Monday.
The group has not stated when the remaining 24 bodies will be returned to Israel as part of the ceasefire deal.
US President Donald Trump has boarded Air Force One as he heads to Egypt after his address to the Israeli Knesset.
He is set to co-chair the Gaza "peace summit" which is being held in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh, along with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Hundreds of Palestinians gathered in Khan Younis on Monday as buses carrying freed prisoners that were seized by Israeli forces in Gaza over the past two years arrived.
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The prisoners’ release comes as part of a US-brokered ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. pic.twitter.com/2xTAWna8JG
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met senior Hamas officials, including Khalil al-Hayya, on Wednesday in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh in a meeting that helped seal the Gaza ceasefire deal, sources close to the Palestinian movement told Middle East Eye.
The following day, 9 October, Israel, Hamas and mediators in Egypt signed the deal to end the genocide in Gaza.
Hamas leaders feared Israel would resume its attacks on Gaza once the 20 living Israeli captives were freed.
MEE's sources said Middle East envoy Witkoff and Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, flew to Egypt to hold a highly unusual direct meeting with Hamas leaders to assure them the deal would definitively end the war.
Axios, which first reported the details, said Witkoff told Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators that Trump had made this promise when he touched down in Sharm el-Sheikh.
Read more: Trump envoys held direct meeting with Hamas leaders over Gaza deal
Israeli authorities have released the second group of Palestinian prisoners from Ketziot Prison in the Negev to Gaza on Monday.
Wafa news agency reported that 38 buses and 10 ambulances transferred hundreds of prisoners set for release.
They were welcomed by families and supporters, with many immediately transported to hospital for medical examinations and treatment.
The group includes 154 prisoners who were serving life sentences, and will be deported to Egypt.
The first group of 96 prisoners were released from Ofer Prison, west of Ramallah earlier today, which followed Hamas's release of 20 living Israeli hostages on Monday morning.
Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups report that over 11,000 detainees remain in custody, including 350 sentenced to life imprisonment. Around 400 child prisoners are held in Ofer and Megiddo Prisons.
US President Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament on Monday and said, "After two harrowing years, darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families.”
Trump told Israeli lawmakers, “This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East.”
Trump also urged an amnesty for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over corruption charges during his Knesset speech. "Cigars and some champagne – who the hell cares?" he said, referring to the fraud charges Netanyahu faces.
The US president expressed his appreciation for Arab nations and the Muslim leaders “that came together to press Hamas, to set the hostages free”.
“We had a lot of help … a lot of people that you wouldn’t suspect, and I want to thank them very much for that,” he added.
Trump said that in Lebanon, “the dagger of Hezbollah” that was aimed at Israel has been “totally shattered”.
“My administration is actively supporting the new president of Lebanon and his mission to permanently disarm Hezbollah’s… brigades. He’s doing very well,” he said.
The US president also said it would be great if a peace deal could be made with Iran, adding that the Iranian people “want to survive”.
Israeli-American billionaire and major Trump donor Miriam Adelson was seen in the visitors’ gallery, the Jerusalem Post reported.
She was accompanied by her son, Matan Adelson, and Likud MK Boaz Bismuth, who previously served as editor-in-chief of the Adelson family–owned daily, Israel Hayom.
US President Donald Trump was briefly heckled during his speech at the Knesset by Ayman Odeh, a member of parliament, Al Jazeera reported.
Trump’s speech was interrupted as security officials dragged people out of the parliament and snatched away banners.
“Only ending the occupation, and only recognising the State of Palestine alongside Israel, will bring justice, peace, and security to all,” Odeh wrote on social media company X before the session began.
Trump's brief visit to Israel includes an address to the Knesset, before he departs for Egypt to co-chair an international summit aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
Palestinian officials on Monday reported an explosion near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza in which three children were wounded.
Gaza’s Civil Defence said an object believed to have been left behind by Israeli forces exploded.
US President Donald Trump’s speech in the Knesset on Monday was briefly interrupted as security officials dragged people out of parliament and snatched away banners, Al Jazeera reported.
“After two harrowing years, darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families,” Trump told the lawmakers.
“This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East,” he said.
Trump's brief visit to Israel includes an address to the Knesset, before he departs for Egypt to co-chair an international summit aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Monday that US President Donald Trump saved millions of lives.
"You are the one who has the power to bring about the next wave of peace," Lapid said, addressing Trump at a session in the Israeli Knesset.
Trump's brief visit to Israel includes an address to the Knesset, before he departs for Egypt to co-chair an international summit aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
US President Donald Trump said the "long and painful nightmare" was finally over for Israelis and Palestinians following the Gaza ceasefire deal.
"After two harrowing years, darkness and captivity, 20 courageous hostages are returning to the glorious embrace of their families," Trump told the Israeli Knesset.
"This is the historic dawn of a new Middle East."
Without naming any countries, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused several governments of buying into "Hamas's false propaganda".
"More and more governments succumbed to antisemitic mobs in their own countries. They just turned on Israel. They called for us to surrender to Hamas's demands, just leave Gaza immediately," he said in a speech to the Israeli Knesset.
"They said 'end the war' without committing to disarm Hamas, without committing to a demilitarised Gaza."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heaped praise on US President Donald Trump, and said his "pivotal leadership" was crucial in securing the Gaza ceasefire deal.
Addressing the Israeli Knesset following the release of all living Israeli captives by Hamas, Netanyahu said: "On this day filled with emotion, which will be carved in the history of our people, your name [Trump] will be carved in the legacy of our nation."
"It has already been carved in the history of humanity."
Netanyahu repeatedly lavished praise on Trump, and said that his "pivotal leadership" got the "backing of almost the entire world".
He also said that the Gaza ceasefire plan "brings all our hostages home, [is] a proposal that ends the war by achieving all our objectives, [and] a proposal that opens the war to a historic expansion of peace in our region and beyond our region".
"Mr President, you are committed to this peace. I am committed to this peace, and together, Mr President, we will achieve this peace."
