Trump, world leaders sign declaration after 20 living hostages back in Israel

Daily News Article   —   Posted on October 14, 2025

(by By Danielle Haynes, Darryl Coote, Allen Cone, UPI) – All 20 living hostages [who had been] held [captive] by Hamas [for over 2 years were released and] returned home to Israel on Monday morning [as part of the Trump brokered peace deal]. Later the same day, President Trump and other world leaders signed the Trump Peace Plan during a summit in Egypt as Phase 1 of the president’s peace deal.

Early Monday, Trump’s Air Force One did a flyover of Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, where several thousand gathered. He then became the first U.S. president to address Israel’s Knesset in Jerusalem, declaring a “dawn of a new Middle East” and witnessed hostages reuniting with their families.

Trump [later] flew about 360 miles to Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Sharm El Sheikh to sign the agreement.

Trump said phase two of his 20-point cease-fire plan had “already started,” including a much broader effort for peace in the region.

Details of the signed cease-fire initially weren’t available but hours later the White House posted it titled, “The Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity.”

Calling it a “truly historic commitment” by all parties, it was signed by Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Qatar Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. … [Note: not all attending leaders signed it because the signing ceremony was limited to Trump and the key mediators – Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey – who had directly facilitated the negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Not every attendee signed, but some leaders provided endorsements or joint statements instead, and the process emphasized multilateral support rather than universal signatures].

“We understand that lasting peace will be one in which both Palestinians and Israelis can prosper with their fundamental human rights protected, their security guaranteed, and their dignity upheld,” the agreement reads.

(front L-R) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, US President Donald Trump, and Emir of Qatar Cheikh Tamim ben Hamad al-Thani in Egypt, October 13, 2025. (Evan Vucci / AFP)

The 11-paragraph declaration continued: “We seek tolerance, dignity, and equal opportunity for every person ensuring this region is a place where all can pursue their aspirations in peace, security and economic prosperity, regardless of race, faith or ethnicity.

“We pursue a comprehensive vision of peace, security and shared prosperity in the region, grounded in the principles of mutual respect and shared destiny.”

Trump spoke about the creation of the supervisory Board of Peace, which calls for a temporary transitional government to be established in Gaza and supervised by “a new international transitional body” called the Board of Peace.

“We’re going to put some of you on the Board of Peace. Everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace,” Trump told the more than two dozen world leaders.

Trump also spoke about rebuilding Gaza.  His comments to more than two dozen foreign leaders were much shorter than his 1-hour speech in Israel.

“This is the first time the Middle East crisis has brought people together, as opposed to driving them apart, and to declare that our future will not be ruled by the fights of the generations past, which is foolish,” he said in Egypt. “So together, let us continue in the spirit of cooperation and goodwill that has finally brought us to this incredible, historic breakthrough.”

Trump then departed for Washington early Tuesday morning (Egypt and Israel are 7 hours ahead of the U.S. Eastern Standard Time) after spending a day in the Middle East. …

Trump individually thanked other leaders, including those from France, Canada, Egypt, Pakistan, Hungary, Italy, Britain and the European Union. For more than 20 minutes, he shook their hands behind a large “PEACE 2025” sign.

“It’s such a compliment to what we’re doing, because what we’ve done is something very unique and very special,” Trump said. “So it’s perhaps the wealthiest and most powerful group of nations ever assembled at one time, which is a big thing. We have achieved together in recent days a change that really is historic.” (watch more at x.com and here)

The leaders also heaped praise on Trump.

“Mr. President, let the Gaza war be the last war in the Middle East,” Egypt’s President Fattah El-Sisi told Trump.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said:

“Mr. President, I would like to salute you for your exemplary leadership — visionary leadership — and I think that you’re the man this world needed most at this point in time.”

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called Donald Trump “the most genuine and the most wonderful candidate” for the Nobel Prize, October 13, 2025. (Photo: AP)

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu didn’t attend the signing “due to time constraints ahead of the start of Jewish holidays. Shemini Atzeret is from Monday through Wednesday and Simchat Torah on Wednesday.

But the Guardian reported that Turkey’s Erdogan said he would not land his plane in Sharm el-Sheikh if Netanyahu went there.

… At [his speech to] the Knesset, Trump praised the work of negotiators, saying, “we have done the impossible.”

“We have built industries together, we have made discoveries together, we have confronted evil together, we have waged war together, and, perhaps most beautifully of all, we have made peace together.”

Trump called on Palestinians to “turn forever from the path of terror and violence.”

“After tremendous pain and death and hardship, now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down,” he said. “We don’t want that to happen again.”

…About 1.9 million people, or 90% of Gaza’s population, have been displaced due to the war and most of the Palestinian enclave’s infrastructure has been destroyed,  [which was brought on by the Hamas led barbaric attack on Oct. 7, 2023 in which they slaughtered over 1,200 mostly Israelis and took another 251 hostage].

The Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity — Oct. 13, 2025  (from whitehouse.gov):

We, the undersigned, welcome the truly historic commitment and implementation by all parties to the Trump Peace Agreement, ending more than two years of profound suffering and loss — opening a new chapter for the region defined by hope, security, and a shared vision for peace and prosperity.

We support and stand behind President Trump’s sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza and bring lasting peace to the Middle East.  Together, we will implement this agreement in a manner that ensures peace, security, stability, and opportunity for all peoples of the region, including both Palestinians and Israelis.

We understand that lasting peace will be one in which both Palestinians and Israelis can prosper with their fundamental human rights protected, their security guaranteed, and their dignity upheld.

We affirm that meaningful progress emerges through cooperation and sustained dialogue, and that strengthening bonds among nations and peoples serves the enduring interests of regional and global peace and stability.

We recognize the deep historical and spiritual significance of this region to the faith communities whose roots are intertwined with the land of the region — Christianity, Islam, and Judaism among them.  Respect for these sacred connections and the protection of their heritage sites shall remain paramount in our commitment to peaceful coexistence.

We are united in our determination to dismantle extremism and radicalization in all its forms.  No society can flourish when violence and racism is normalized, or when radical ideologies threaten the fabric of civil life.  We commit to addressing the conditions that enable extremism and to promoting education, opportunity, and mutual respect as foundations for lasting peace.

We hereby commit to the resolution of future disputes through diplomatic engagement and negotiation rather than through force or protracted conflict.  We acknowledge that the Middle East cannot endure a persistent cycle of prolonged warfare, stalled negotiations, or the fragmentary, incomplete, or selective application of successfully negotiated terms.  The tragedies witnessed over the past two years must serve as an urgent reminder that future generations deserve better than the failures of the past.

We seek tolerance, dignity, and equal opportunity for every person, ensuring this region is a place where all can pursue their aspirations in peace, security, and economic prosperity, regardless of race, faith, or ethnicity.

We pursue a comprehensive vision of peace, security, and shared prosperity in the region, grounded in the principles of mutual respect and shared destiny.

In this spirit, we welcome the progress achieved in establishing comprehensive and durable peace arrangements in the Gaza Strip, as well as the friendly and mutually beneficial relationship between Israel and its regional neighbors.  We pledge to work collectively to implement and sustain this legacy, building institutional foundations upon which future generations may thrive together in peace.

We commit ourselves to a future of enduring peace.

Donald J. Trump – President of the United States of America

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi – President of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani – Emir of the State of Qatar

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – President of the Republic of Türkiye