Trump declares end of Gaza war and floats wider Middle East peace

Trump, speaking on his flight to the region, said Hamas had been given a temporary green light for fighters to keep order: "They do want to stop the problems, and they've been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time."

The Gaza War has also reshaped the Middle East through spillover conflicts, with Israel imposing punishing damage in a 12-day war against Iran and campaigns against Tehran's regional terrorist allies, including Lebanon's Hezbollah and Yemen's Houthis.

Trump, who has presented his plan to end the war in Gaza as the catalyst for a wide regional peace settlement, said more countries would join the Abraham Accords initiative and even floated the idea of a peace deal between arch Middle East enemies Iran and Israel, telling the Knesset he thought Iran wanted one: "Wouldn't it be nice?"

Reporting by Maayan Lubell, Steven Scheer and Alexander Cornwell in Jerusalem, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Menna Alaa El-Din and Jaidaa Taha in Cairo, Andrew Mills in Doha, Evelyn Hockstein aboard Air Force One, Jana Choukeir, Ahmed Elimam and Tala Ramadan in Dubai Writing by Howard Goller, Angus McDowall, Peter Graff and Simon Lewis Editing by Lincoln Feast, Timothy Heritage, Mark Heinrich, Frances Kerry and Alistair Bell