{"id":209112,"date":"2025-10-13T01:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209112\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T01:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T01:59:10","slug":"trump-heads-to-israel-as-hamas-prepares-to-free-israeli-hostages-from-october-7-attacks-after-peace-deal-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/209112\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump heads to Israel as Hamas prepares to free Israeli hostages from October 7 attacks after peace deal negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at length while flying to Israel ahead of the expected release of hostages held by Hamas for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>He was, as ever, bullish about the prospects of the peace deal he helped put in place, citing \u201cverbal guarantees\u201d he had received, as well as his belief that foreign leaders did not want to disappoint him.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about his previous enthusiasm for property developers to create a \u201cRiviera of the Middle East\u201d along Gaza\u2019s waterfront real estate, Trump played down expectations of a speedy turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know about the riviera for a while. Because you take a look at what you have \u2013 you have to get people taken care of first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to have to start by removing a lot of the structures that you see&#8230; it\u2019s blasted, this is like a demolition site. That process is going to start pretty much immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump prepares to board Air Force One on Sunday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4e5264b00290f6202eff6fc1d72b4f8efcd54b66.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump prepares to board Air Force One on Sunday.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trump walks up the stairs of Air Force One for his flight to the Middle East.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3435f2e20688520b4ea37b3deafbf9d0bc118cab.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump walks up the stairs of Air Force One for his flight to the Middle East.Credit: AP<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he didn\u2019t think there would be much use for the International Stabilisation Force, a multinational peacekeeping effort expected to monitor the ceasefire under US oversight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are going to behave, everybody knows their place,\u201d he said. \u201cEverybody is happy, whether it\u2019s Jewish or Muslim, or the Arab countries, every country is dancing in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president was also unfazed by reports that Hamas was acting as a quasi police force in parts of Gaza, with clashes breaking out between security forces and other fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be fine. Who knows for sure, but I think it\u2019s going to be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington: US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at length while flying to Israel ahead of the expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-209112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}