At the center of the negotiations were the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who helped bring Israel, Hamas and surrounding nations to the table over the past several months.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the Sharm el-Sheikh peace conference hosted by President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

In a pivotal biblical story — retold each Rosh Hashana, marking the Jewish new year — God orders Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Abraham agrees, binds Isaac to an altar and is stopped before killing his son by an angel who says Abraham has passed a test of faith.

The Albanese government was snubbed from the Middle East peace summit chaired by US President Donald Trump in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Egypt to attend the signing ceremony of the peace plan for Gaza on Monday.

The achievement of a ceasefire in Gaza has earned Trump praise from across the political aisle and from U.S. friends and foes around the world.

In an emotional and historic exchange on Monday, Hamas released the final 20 living hostages held since the Oct. 7 terror attack, while Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners under a U.S.-brokered cease-fire deal that President Donald Trump called “the dawn of a new Middle East.

Hamas will release the final 48 hostages, including about 20 believed to be alive, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel