Blinken says Trump’s Gaza peace plan is based on Biden administration’s work

Former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken both took credit for the ceasefire agreement between President Donald Trump and Israel on Monday.

On X, Biden – who is undergoing treatment for cancer – said he was “deeply grateful and relieved” that the war in Gaza was coming to an end.

“The road to this agreement has not been easy,” the Democrat wrote. “My administration has worked tirelessly to bring hostages home, provide relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war.”

But Biden also credited Trump for securing “a renewed ceasefire agreement all the way to the finish line.”

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President Joe Biden and Antony Blinken each took some credit Monday for the ceasefire agreement between Donald Trump and Hamas, arguing that it followed the groundwork laid by the Biden administration. (Getty Images)

“Now, with the support of the United States and the world, the Middle East is on the path to a peace that I hope will endure and a future for Israelis and Palestinians characterized by equal measures of peace, dignity and security,” he concluded.

On Monday, Blinken said Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip was based on one developed by the Biden administration.

In a lengthy article on X, Blinken, who served in the Biden administration, explained how Trump managed to secure the peace deal. He noted that Arab states and Turkey said “enough” to Hamas, and said the response also showed that other Iranian-backed groups – Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi rebels – were not coming to Hamas’ aid.

“This starts with a clear and comprehensive post-conflict plan for Gaza,” Blinken wrote. “It is good that President Trump adopted and expanded on the plan developed by the Biden administration after months of discussions with his Arab partners, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.”

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Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken said President Donald Trump’s 20-point ceasefire agreement was based on one developed by the Biden administration. (Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images)

Blinken said the Biden administration briefly secured a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in January, leading to the release of 135 hostages before the deal collapsed.

He also questioned how Trump could secure a permanent peace plan.

Peter Doocy, Fox News’ senior White House correspondent, asked Trump about Blinken’s remarks aboard Air Force One.

“Everybody knows it’s a joke,” Trump said. “Look, they did such a bad job. This should never have happened.”

“If there was just a decent president — not a great president like me — if there was a decent president, you wouldn’t have had the war between Russia and Ukraine,” Trump said. “It was bad policy by Biden and Obama.”

Trump was in Egypt on Monday to work on the second phase of the ceasefire while meeting with more than 20 world leaders.

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the International Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, October 13, 2025. (Yoan Valat, swimming pool photo via AP)

“We’ve been hearing it for many years, but no one thought it would ever get there. And now here we are,” Trump said.

“This is the day that people in this region and around the world have worked, fought, hoped and prayed for,” he added. “Thanks to the historic agreement we have just signed, these prayers of millions of people have finally been answered. Together, we have achieved the impossible.”

In his message, Blinken said the post-war plan for Gaza should be implemented immediately, “with eyes wide open to its challenges: assembling the international stabilization force, fully demilitarizing and disarming Hamas, confronting the insurgents, and quickly achieving a gradual but complete Israeli withdrawal.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, speaks with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, right, and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, left, at U.N. headquarters in New York, October 24, 2023. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

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He also praised Trump for reaffirming “the key principles we established for Gaza at the start of the war – no platform for terrorism, no annexation, no occupation, no forced population transfers – and for making clear that the overall goal is to create the conditions for a credible path to Palestinian statehood.”