“A day of great joy.” During his speech to the Israeli parliament, US President Donald Trump celebrated the “end of an era of terror and death and the beginning of an era of faith and hope”, this Monday, October 13.
The arrival of the American president is linked to the first stage of his ceasefire plan in Gaza, with the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas. The 20 hostages who were still alive were handed over to the Red Cross on Monday morning.
“The canyons are silent and the sun rises”
Donald Trump, who will later attend the “Peace Summit” in Egypt, received a standing ovation from Knesset deputies. “Today the sirens are silent, the cannon shots are silent and the sun rises over a sacred land and over a region that, with the help of God, will live in peace for eternity,” he declared in particular.
The American president praised Israel’s “perpetual harmony with all the nations of what will soon be a magnificent region,” speaking of the “historic dawn of a new Middle East.”
Before Donald Trump spoke, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “thanked” Donald Trump on behalf of Israel for having “recognized Israeli sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem,” but also for his involvement in the release of the hostages and the ceasefire agreement. “Donald Trump is Israel’s best friend” in the White House, he chanted.
He announced that he had submitted the name of the American president to obtain the “medal of the president of the State of Israel.” Donald Trump will thus become the first non-Israeli to receive the country’s “highest civilian decoration.”
Source: BFM TV
