Households of hostages held in Gaza urged the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Monday to present the Nobel Peace Prize to United States President Donald Trump this month for his efforts to safe the discharge of their family members.
As Gaza ceasefire talks started in Egypt primarily based on Trump’s proposal, the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board, which represents the vast majority of hostages’ kin in Israel, mentioned in an announcement that it despatched a letter to the committee calling on it to call Trump because the laureate this Friday.
“At this very second, President Trump’s complete plan to launch all remaining hostages and eventually finish this horrible warfare is on the desk. For the primary time in months, we’re hopeful that our nightmare will lastly be over,” the Discussion board wrote. “We’re assured that he is not going to relaxation till the final hostage is introduced residence, the warfare has ended, and peace and prosperity are restored to the folks of the Center East.”
“From the second of his inauguration, [Trump] introduced us gentle by way of our darkest instances,” the Discussion board mentioned, expressing gratitude for the handfuls of dwelling and useless hostages returned by way of the US-brokered ceasefire between January and March.
“On this previous 12 months, no chief or group has contributed extra to peace all over the world than President Trump. Whereas many have spoken eloquently about peace, he has achieved it,” added the Discussion board, concluding: “We strongly urge you to award President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of he has vowed he is not going to relaxation and won’t cease till each final hostage is again residence.”
The letter doesn’t represent a nomination of Trump, for the reason that Discussion board shouldn’t be certified to submit nominees to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Eligible nominators embrace members of nationwide governments, college professors, and previous peace prize winners.
An enormous banner urging US President Donald Trump to safe a Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal is unfurled throughout a rally in help of the hostages, in Hostages Sq. in Tel Aviv, August 31, 2025 (Amir Goldstein / Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board)
In July, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nominated Trump for the award, citing the president’s position in ending the earlier month’s 12-day Israel-Iran warfare and in brokering the 2020 Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and 4 Arab nations.
Nonetheless, that nomination would solely be legitimate for the 2026 award; the interval for submitting 2025 award nominees ended on January 31.
In accordance with Kobby Barda, an professional on US-Israeli relations, Israeli-American authorized scholar Anat Alon-Beck, who teaches at Case Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio, already nominated Trump in a January 28 letter to the Nobel Prize committee.
(L-R) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahraini International Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates International Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a photograph on the Blue Room Balcony after signing the Abraham Accords throughout a ceremony on the South Garden of the White Home in Washington, September 15, 2020. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon, File)
Since 2018, Trump has been nominated for the distinguished prize — which he has repeatedly asserted that he deserves — by a number of people in the US and politicians overseas. Some observers have urged that Trump is transferring swiftly to start implementing his Gaza ceasefire-hostage proposal partially to strengthen his possibilities forward of this 12 months’s award.
Terror teams within the Gaza Strip are holding 48 hostages, together with 47 of the 251 kidnapped in the course of the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the warfare in Gaza. They embrace the our bodies of not less than 26 confirmed useless by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive, and there are grave issues for the well-being of two others, Israeli officers have mentioned. Among the many our bodies held by Hamas is an IDF soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.
