{"id":192225,"date":"2025-10-11T06:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T06:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:37:08","slug":"hamas-gathering-hostages-now-says-trump-as-palestinians-return-to-rubble-in-northern-gaza-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/192225\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas gathering hostages ‘now’, says Trump, as Palestinians return to rubble in northern Gaza – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Despite Trump’s exclamation, questions remainpublished at 05:50 BST<\/p>\n

05:50 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Lyse Doucet
Chief international correspondent<\/p>\n

When President Trump announced this ceasefire deal, he hailed it, as he often does, in epic terms. This is more than Gaza, he exclaimed; this is peace in the Middle East. <\/p>\n

The reality is far less grand. <\/p>\n

Ending, for now, this grievous Gaza war, finally bringing Israeli hostages home in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, is a major achievement which brought enormous relief and joy. <\/p>\n

The surprising speed in which this deal was done, the way some details are, even now, still being sorted, underlines how President Trump was in a hurry to get it over the line, and be seen to do it. <\/p>\n

But there\u2019s still little detail and no decisions on much more difficult issues: Will Hamas ever give up its guns? Will Israel ever end its military occupation?
\nAnd what is the political horizon, that vague phrase in President Trump\u2019s 20-point plan which much of the world translates as a Palestinian state – but Israel firmly rejects. <\/p>\n

There’s little talk here of peace. At best, it is a calm before yet more storms – unless President Trump, and many others, continue to exert the huge pressure that made this first phase possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite Trump’s exclamation, questions remainpublished at 05:50 BST 05:50 BST Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent When President Trump announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-192225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}