Historic dawn of new Middle East

'Historic dawn of new Middle East'

Ceasefire Agreement on Monday, 13 October 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump poses with a signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday, 13 October 2025


Trump's Gaza deal may be 'historic,' but falls short of delivering 'dawn of a new Middle East'. Pursuing a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace seems a distant prospect

Follow up
A swath of road is filled with people walking north, with dusty land on either side and buildings along the horizon.
Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid Road toward Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, soon after Israeli forces declared a ceasefire and withdrew from some positions in the territory.

The airstrikes have stopped. Surviving Israeli hostages have been released and returned to their families, while hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons have been returned to theirs.

Rest of agreement 
How and when the rest of Donald Trump’s Mideast deal unfolds isn’t entirely clear. In the past few days, there have been moments when it seems this tentative agreement could still unravel — yet in an era when conflicts seem endless, even a tenuous peace deserves some fanfare. 

Not end of war
But to declare an end to the two-year Gaza war, as Trump did Tuesday, as the “historic dawn of a new Middle East” wildly overstates what the ceasefire deal delivers.

Reported by CBC News


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