US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable astir "Antifa," an anti-fascist question helium designated a home "terrorist organization" successful the State Dining Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected Oct. 8, 2025.
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday nighttime stateside that Israel and Hamas had agreed connected the archetypal signifier of a bid program which could enactment an extremity to the two-year warfare and escaped hostages.
"ALL of the Hostages volition beryllium released precise soon, and Israel volition retreat their Troops to an agreed upon enactment arsenic the archetypal steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace. All Parties volition beryllium treated fairly!," Trump said successful a station connected Truth Social.
The preliminary statement was confirmed by Israeli officials, Hamas and mediator Qatar.
Qatari Prime Minister's spokesperson Maged al Ansary said successful a post connected X that an statement had been reached connected "all presumption and mechanisms for implementing the archetypal signifier of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which volition pb to stopping the war, releasing Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners and allowing assistance to enter," according to CNBC's translation of his station successful Arabic. More details volition beryllium announced later, helium added.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump connected X and said that "With the support of the archetypal signifier of the plan, each our hostages volition beryllium brought home. This is simply a diplomatic occurrence and a nationalist and motivation triumph for the State of Israel." An Israeli authorities spokesperson said that merchandise of hostages volition commencement Saturday, according to Reuters.
Hamas confirmed the details successful a abstracted statement. "We highly admit the efforts of our mediating brothers successful Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey. We besides worth the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, who question to bring astir a definitive extremity to the warfare and a implicit withdrawal of the concern from the Gaza Strip," the radical said.
It remained unclear whether the parties had made advancement connected much contentious issues, including whether Hamas would hold to demilitarize, arsenic President Trump has demanded and however governance of the war-torn Gaza Strip would beryllium handled.
Trump's 20-point proposal released past month to extremity the warfare successful Gaza called for "a process of demilitarization of Gaza ... which volition see placing weapons permanently beyond usage done an agreed process of decommissioning."
The program called for Gaza to beryllium governed nether "the impermanent transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee, liable for delivering the day-to-day moving of nationalist services and municipalities for the radical successful Gaza."
The Gaza warfare started successful October 2023 erstwhile Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, sidesplitting astir 1,200 people. Israel's retaliatory run has since killed much than 67,000 people, and laid discarded to overmuch of Gaza.
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