Ten hostages are safe after a tense 15-hour standoff at a downtown Bakersfield bank ended early Wednesday with the death of the suspect, authorities said.
A mother and daughter from Evanston who were released a few weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack are still healing.
All 20 living hostages held by Hamas and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel walked free Monday as part of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that decimated the Gaza Strip and killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.
The moment remains fragile, with Israel and Hamas still in the early stages of implementing the first phase of Trump's plan.
"This will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better," Trump said.
As part of the ceasefire deal to end the two-year war, more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners were released around the same time as the Israeli hostages.