Trump's plan has delivered a spectacular day - but has postponed harder decisions which now loom into view

Mihaela Chircă

It has been an extraordinary day of enormous emotion and high drama but, for all that, we have only witnessed the first phase of the Trump peace plan - and in many ways that is the easy bit. The first phase envisaged a ceasefire, the release of hostages, the release of many more Palestinians held in Israeli jails, a partial Israeli military withdrawal, and aid starting to flood back into Gaza . Job done, although the aid bit is still a work in progress. Trump and his team ripped up one of the