Gaza ceasefire highlights: Pak PM hails Trump's effort to stop wars, calls him ‘man of peace’ at Egypt Summit

Gaza ceasefire live updates: US President Donald Trump departed for the USA aboard Air Force One after the Gaza peace summit in Egypt concluded.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: United States President Donald Trump said that Pakistan’s Army chief Asim Munir is his “favourite” Field Marshal as he welcomed Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on the stage to deliver an address during the Gaza peace summit in Egypt.

Munir was not present at the peace summit.

“Prime Minister Sharif of Pakistan and I have to say my favourite Field Marshal from Pakistan who is not here but the Prime Minister is here,” said Trump as he turned to Sharif and asked him to address the summit. Read more.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: “India is a great country with a very good friend of mine at the top and he’s just done a fantastic job and I think Pakistan and India are going to live very nicely together,” said Trump while addressing the summit.

He then turned to Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif standing right behind him and asked, “Right?” following which, both the leaders shared a brief laugh and Trump said, “They will, they will.”

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Before inviting Shehbaz Sharif to speak at the Peace Summit in Egypt, Trump referred to Pakistan's Asim Munir as his “favourite field Marshal”.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: "Mr President, I would like to salute you for your exemplary leadership — visionary leadership — and I think that you're the man this world needed most at this point in time," Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif said at the Summit in Egypt.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has backed Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize next year. He also called Trump “genuinely a man of peace” and credited him for saving millions of lives in the Middle East.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: "I'm deeply honoured to receive from you Egypt's highest state honour, the Order of the Nile," Donald Trump says at the Summit in Egypt.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Addressing the media, Trump announces that there is peace in the Middle East. “We have peace in the Middle East,” he said.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Egypt's Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said Palestinians have the right to live in an independent state side by side with Israelis, reports Reuters. He adds that Egypt will hold the Gaza reconstruction summit.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: The United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey signed a declaration as the guarantors of a Gaza deal aimed at ending two years of war.

"The document is going to spell out rules and regulations and lots of other things," Trump said before signing and repeating twice that "it's going to hold up".

People in Gaza celebrated the return of Palestinian prisoners with gunshots.

Turkey and Egypt have also put their pens to the Gaza declaration.

Donald Trump signed the Gaza Peace deal, ending the two year conflict between Israel and Hamas.

US President Donald Trump lauded Qatar, Turkey and Egypt for their role in the Gaza peace deal at the Summit in Egypt.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Donald Trump is greeting world leaders at the Egypt Summit. Among the leaders he met were Palestinian president Abbas, MoS Kirti Vardhan Singh, Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Pakistan's Shebaz Sharif, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, among others.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: The Israeli prison service said Monday it had freed 1,968 inmates, mostly Palestinian, detainees as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal.

“1,968 terrorists were transferred from several prisons across the country to the Ofer and Ktziot prisons,” the statement by the prison service said.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi says that Trump is ‘only one capable of bringing about peace’.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: US President Donald Trump said that Egypt played a very important role in the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

He also adds that phase two of talks on Gaza has also started, reports Reuters.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Donald Trump is holding a meeting with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. He says that the Egyptian President is a powerful leader and that the US supports him.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office earlier today said that he would not attend the summit as it was too close to a Jewish holiday.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: US President Donald Trump landed in Egypt, reports AFP. He will soon co-chair a summit on Gaza. The leader arrived in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh where over two dozen heads of state, government and international organisations are expecting him.

The Israel Army says that the Red Cross ison its way to collect several dead hostages' remains, reports AFP.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Israel says it has released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, reports AP.

Gaza ceasefire live updates: Donald Trump has departed from Israel for the Gaza summit in Egypt, AFP reports.