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It’s been a long day! World leaders met, the deal was signed, and prisoners and hostages have been swapped, inspiring relief and celebration among Israelis and Palestinians alike.

Now, the focus will turn to next steps, especially since details are still sparse.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called Monday’s diplomatic meeting a “new and important chapter.”

“We are focused on next steps for peace and security in the Middle East, including ensuring that life-saving aid is delivered urgently,” Carney wrote on X.

Trump has boarded Air Force One and is on his way back to Washington, D.C., marking the end of the international summit.

Gaza deal lacks specifics for lasting peace, expert says

Nader Hashemi, a professor of Middle East politics at Georgetown University, welcomes the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that the U.S. Has brokered. But he says he remains skeptical that the deal alone will mean a lasting peace, as it lacks the necessary details.

Now that Trump’s speech is over, let’s zoom out a bit.

The day has been marked with lots of relief and celebration, as Israelis welcomed the remaining living hostages home and Palestinians received nearly 2,000 freed prisoners from Israel. This swap was a central point of the first phase of ending the war, according to the Trump administration.

The focus is now shifting to next steps.

Some experts, while hopeful, are worried that Trump’s plan won’t be effective.

“This peace plan that Donald Trump is touting as being the best peace plan in thousands of years was a peace plan that was put together where one of the two parties to the conflict — the Palestinians — had no voice,” Hashemi said. “It was largely an Israeli peace plan that was drawn up with the Trump administration and input from Arab dictators.”

Hashemi is hopeful for peace and reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis “based on equality and safety and security,” but worries “this is not the plan that will get us there.”

The concern, according to Hashemi, is that Trump’s peace plan will only offer a temporary pause in fighting, as opposed to a permanent resolution of the decades-long conflict.

Trump has finished speaking, but before he wrapped up, he offered vague next steps.

Trump said there’s “a lot of money coming into Gaza,” but has yet to offer specifics. He did say that as money flows in, he will let the world know who is funding the "building" of Gaza because “they deserve great credit for doing it.”

He also said: “We don’t want to fund anything to do with the hatred, bloodshed and terror,” and proceeded to say that Gaza’s reconstruction requires its demilitarization.

Finally, he said that a “World War Three in the Middle East” will not happen.

Trump calls Carney ‘Mr. President’ at peace summit

During his speech at the Gaza peace summit in Egypt, U.S. President Donald Trump referred to Prime Minister Mark Carney as “president.” Carney attended the signing of a peace plan aimed at ending the war in Gaza, along with other world leaders.

Hello all. My name is Anya Zoledziowski and I’m a senior writer on the news desk. I’m hopping in now.

U.S. President Donald Trump is thanking the numerous world leaders for attending the summit, including Canada’s Mark Carney.

But Trump appeared to refer to Carney as “president” instead of “prime minister.”

Israel’s military says it has received four bodies of dead Israeli hostages who were held by Hamas in Gaza.

The move by Hamas was frowned upon by Israel’s defence minister and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.

They’re calling for the remains of the other Israeli hostages believed to have died and for the two whose fates are unknown to be transferred.

The U.S. President is speaking once again at the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, saying, "After years of suffering and bloodshed, the war in Gaza is over."

Trump said "humanitarian aid is now pouring" into the territory where more than one million people have been displaced.

"The hostages are reuniting. I mean, it's beautiful. I'm just watching it backstage, the level of love and sorrow — I've never seen anything like it.”

I’m Nahlah Ayed, host of Ideas, former Middle East correspondent.

Despite Trump’s declaration of a “golden age of the Middle East,” the deal he has brokered is a classic example of a negotiated “negative peace” — the absence of violence — without addressing any of the underlying issues.

In other words, while Trump’s deal ends just one particularly horrific and painful episode of violence in the Middle East, the larger Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains unsolved.

The peace deal is silent on other symptoms of that decades-long conflict. They include the growing expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a key part of the region in which Palestinians hope to establish a state.

Several world leaders attending the summit today — Carney included — have recently recognized a Palestinian state, as have most of the world’s nations. The presence of those leaders at the peace summit signals they see this deal as a step towards that goal, and towards a more comprehensive, lasting peace between Israelis and the Palestinian people as a whole.

But Netanyahu has repeatedly voiced his opposition to a Palestinian state, and the U.S. Has not moved to recognize one either.

Mark Carney was among the world leaders at the peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh who stepped up and shook hands with Trump before posing for a picture.

But Canada’s prime minister isn’t expected to give a speech following the signing of the peace deal.

Earlier, Carney said Canada commends Trump’s involvement in advancing the peace plan, adding that it’s vital for parties to “engage constructively to achieve a sustainable and lasting peace agreement.”

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