SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — US President Donald Trump joined more than 20 world leaders in Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday for high-level talks on Gaza’s future as the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement took effect.

Among those attending the Gaza Peace Summit were Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Qatari Emir Shiekh Tamim bin Hamad, Turkish President Erdogan, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, and senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates.

The leaders posed for a group photo in front of a backdrop reading “Peace 2025” before a formal signing ceremony tied to the ceasefire deal.
Trump, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed the document on behalf of the participating nations, with world leaders seated behind them.

“This took 3,000 years to get to this point. Can you believe it? And it’s going to hold up too. It’s going to hold up,” Trump said as he signed the document.
The exact contents of the agreement have not yet been made public by the White House.

In his remarks, Trump called the signing “a turning point for the region,” describing it as the culmination of months of diplomacy.
“This is the day that people across this region and around the world have been working, striving, hoping, and praying for,” he said.
“With the historic agreement we have just signed, those prayers of millions have finally been answered.”

Noticeably absent from the signing ceremony and discussions in Egypt were representatives of Israel and Hamas, whose ceasefire—brokered by the United States—formally began last week after two years of war in Gaza. — Agencies