President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The President will arrive in Israel early Monday, where he is expected to deliver an address at the Knesset and meet with recently freed hostages, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel. Under the peace deal, Hamas must hand over all 48 living and deceased hostages within a 72-hour window that began Friday night local time.
"They're getting them, and they're also getting the bodies, approximately 28 bodies. … It's a tragedy," Trump said. "… I'll be going to Israel. I'll be speaking at the Knesset, I think early on, and then I'm also going to Egypt."
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Egypt will host an international summit in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to finalize the peace agreement. More than 20 world leaders, including Trump, are expected to attend, an Egyptian presidential spokesperson said Saturday, according to Reuters.
"I'll go to Cairo, I think that's where we're going, as opposed to the place of the signing," Trump told reporters. "We have a lot of leaders from all over the world coming too. I know they've been invited."
Charlie Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 during an outdoor event at Utah Valley University. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)
Trump first announced last month that he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously.
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"I will soon be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom," Trump said at the time. "The day of the ceremony will be announced, and I can only guarantee you one thing. That we will have a very big crowd. Very, very big."
On Thursday, Hamas agreed to a peace deal pushed by Trump to end the war in Gaza and return the hostages, two years after the terrorist network attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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