Israelis and Palestinian people Celebrate Hostage and Detainee Freedom as Key Truce Matters Persist

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• Hamas released the last 20 living hostages in Gaza on Monday within the framework of a swap deal for approximately 2,000 Palestinian detainees in a rare moment of happiness among Israeli people & Palestinians.
• World leaders from over 20 countries later met in Egypt during a conference co-chaired by Donald Trump and Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to try to ensure the limited truce gets prolonged into a durable peace.
• "At long last, we have peace in the Middle East," Donald Trump announced at the meeting. America's president endorsed a joint declaration alongside the leaders from Egypt, the Qatari government as well as Turkish authorities aimed to turn the ceasefire into a comprehensive peace plan.
• Within Israel, Trump spoke before Israel's parliament previously on Monday, urging lawmakers to seize a chance for wider peace within the region and saying an "extended ordeal" for both Israelis & Palestinian people had concluded.
• Within Tel Aviv approximately sixty-five thousand Israelis in "Hostages Square" cheered as a military helicopter carrying the twenty released Israelis flew overhead en route to hospital. Real-time video of their release and family gatherings was broadcast at the square.
• A substantial gathering also massed in the southern Gazan city in Khan Younis this Monday to mark the return of approximately seventeen hundred Palestinians arrested during the duration of the war.
• The UN cautions that the Gaza Strip still needed "emergency assistance". Aid deliveries had started arriving in Gaza with many additional were prepared to enter in the coming days.
• The last Gaza ceasefire broke down after two months in March after Israel restarted its military operations. Trump insisted his twenty-point plan for sustaining peace and reconstructing Gaza would take root.
• The truce seemed to be maintained within Gaza on Monday after a two-year Israeli military campaign that has killed approximately sixty-eight thousand individuals.

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