Jubilant locals in both Gaza and Israel took to the streets early Thursday to celebrate President Trump for his role in the historic cease-fire deal — with many calling for him to get the Nobel Peace Prize.
Footage from both the streets of Tel Aviv and war-torn Gaza showed crowds of revelers celebrating what they hope will be the end of the two-year war as they hailed Trump for helping secure the deal.
“Donald Trump! Donald Trump!,” residents in Gaza could be heard cheering after the news broke Wednesday night.
“Nobel Prize to Trump,” those in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square cheered as they waved American flags and danced.
Trump’s plan calls for an immediate cease-fire, an exchange of all the 48 hostages, a staged withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas, and the creation of a transitional government spearheaded by an international body.
The exchange portion of the deal would see the hostages swapped for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners — many of whom are serving life sentences in Israeli prisons.
Humanitarian aid will also be allowed to flood in during the cease-fire.
Hamas confirmed the terms of the agreement, praising “the efforts of US President Donald Trump” for helping secure the deal along with mediators in Qatar, Egypt and Turkey.
The chants from Israel and Gaza are among the latest calls for Trump to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the recipient of which will be announced on Friday.
Trump and his allies have made it clear that the president wants to receive the prize, an award he has coveted since his first nomination in 2018.
Among those touting the president’s nomination was his son Eric Trump, who took to X to praise his father and called on the public to show their support.
“Retweet if you believe Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize,” Eric wrote on X — a message viewed more than 1.5 million times by early Thursday, with more than 19,000 retweets.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick joined in the praise, echoing, “Undoubtedly, President Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Days before the hostage exchange deal was secured, the families of the captives penned a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee calling for Trump to win the prize for his work in brokering a cease-fire.
Trump was met with praise from the families of the hostages after he announced that the remaining 48 captives would likely be freed by Monday as part of the peace deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu originally nominated Trump for the award in July over America’s role in attacking Iran’s nuclear program during the 12-day war and establishing the cease-fire that ended the conflict.
The White House also touted Trump as having ended seven conflicts so far, including between Israel and Iran, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Thailand and Cambodia, India and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.
