Updated on October 13, 2025, at 11:44 pm EST
President Trump and the leaders of Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar signed a document on the Gaza ceasefire deal during a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday.
“It’s going to hold up,” President Trump said as he signed the document. According to a release from the White House, the document was a declaration that stated the signatories welcomed the “implementation by all parties to the Trump Peace Agreement.”
The declaration included several platitudes about committing to a peace deal, but it does not say how a long-term ceasefire will be implemented, as many details of the agreement still need to be worked out in negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
“We support and stand behind President Trump’s sincere efforts to end the war in Gaza and bring lasting peace to the Middle East,” the declaration says. “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.”
The signing ceremony came after Hamas released all 20 living Israeli captives and Israel freed nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including about 250 who were serving sentences and 1,700 who were captured in Gaza and held without charges.
So far, Hamas has released four out of 28 of the bodies of Israelis who have died in captivity, and Israel is accusing the group of not fulfilling its commitments. Before the deal was signed, Hamas said that it may not be able to locate all of the bodies.
While there are signs that Israel may restart its genocidal campaign, Trump’s message in Egypt and in his address to the Israeli Knesset earlier in the day was that the “war is over.”
More than 20 world leaders attended the summit in Egypt, but Israel and Hamas were not represented. According to a report from The Guardian, Trump planned to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but the plan was aborted after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wouldn’t attend if the Israeli leader was there. Sources told AFP that pressure from Iraq also prevented Netanyahu from attending.
During the summit, Trump told reporters that many of the leaders who attended want to join the so-called “Board of Peace,” a body Trump will chair to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza. He also said that the reconstruction hinges on Gaza’s demilitarization.
“We’ve all agreed that supporting Gaza must be done to lift up the people themselves, but we don’t want to fund anything having to do with the bloodshed, hatred, or terror, as has happened in the past,” Trump said. “We’ve also agreed that Gaza’s reconstruction requires that it be demilitarized and that a new, honest civilian police force must be allowed to create safe conditions for the people in Gaza.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that the Gaza ceasefire deal represents the “last chance” for peace in the region. Egypt has been pushing the US to deploy troops to Gaza as part of a “peacekeeping” force, something US military officials have said wouldn’t happen, although the US has sent about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the ceasefire.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told The Associated Press on Monday that Egypt wants “American engagement, even deployment on the ground, to identify the mission, task, and mandate of this force.”
