U.S. President Donald Trump gestures arsenic helium reads a enactment handed to him by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio helium said was regarding Middle East bid talks during a roundtable treatment successful the State Dining Room of the White House connected Oct. 8, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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Israel and Hamas person agreed to the "first phase" of his bid program to intermission warring and merchandise astatine slightest immoderate hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.
"This means that 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," Trump wrote. "All Parties volition beryllium treated fairly!"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said connected societal media, "With God's assistance we volition bring them each home."
The warfare began with Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught connected Israel that killed astir 1,200 people, galore of them civilians. Israel's retaliatory subject run has near tens of thousands of Palestinians dead, devastated Gaza and upended planetary politics.
Negotiators person been gathering successful Egypt for days to hash retired a Trump-backed bid program that helium hopes volition yet effect successful a imperishable extremity to the two-year warfare and bring astir a sustainable bid successful the region.
Trump said Wednesday that he's considering a travel to the Middle East wrong a substance of days, a large amusement of optimism arsenic apical officials from the U.S. and Qatar traveled to an Egyptian edifice for the 3rd time of ongoing negotiations to extremity the Israel-Hamas war.
"I whitethorn spell determination sometime toward the extremity of the week," Trump said from the White House arsenic helium opened a roundtable lawsuit connected a antithetic matter. The travel could hap Sunday, Trump said, adding that "negotiations are going on precise well."
Yet different hint of a woody came aboriginal successful that lawsuit erstwhile U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed Trump a note on White House stationery that read, "You request to o.k. a Truth Social station soon truthful you tin denote woody first." Truth Social is the president's preferred societal media platform.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio updates U.S. President Donald Trump connected the Gaza connection during a roundtable connected "Antifa," an anti-fascist question Trump designated a home "terrorist organization" via enforcement bid connected September 22, astatine the White House successful Washington, D.C., U.S., Oct. 8, 2025.
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The enactment prompted Trump to proclaim, "We're precise adjacent to a woody successful the Middle East."
The accomplishment of Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, connected Wednesday astatine Sharm el-Sheikh for the discussions, arsenic good arsenic Qatar's premier minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, was a motion that negotiators purpose to dive profoundly into the toughest issues of an American plan to extremity the warfare successful Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's apical adviser, Ron Dermer, is besides contiguous for the talks.
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