Trump says he is “hopeful” that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas can be the beginning of a larger and more enduring peace that will end the bloodshed and killing “once and for all”.

He notes that he signed an executive order on Tuesday withdrawing the US from the UN’s human right council – a body that he described as “antisemitic” – and ending all support for the UN’s Palestinian refugees agency (UNRWA)

Trump says America and Israel will:
1. restore calm and stability” to the region
2. and “expand prosperity, opportunity and hope, to our nations
3. and for all people, in the Middle East.