{"id":210433,"date":"2025-10-09T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210433\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:58:07","slug":"israel-hamas-reach-phase-one-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/210433\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel &#038; Hamas reach phase one peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/advocate.com\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced Wednesday evening that <a href=\"http:\/\/advocate.com\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Israel<\/a> and Hamas have \u201cboth signed off\u201d on the first phase of a peace deal that will see all remaining Israeli hostages released as soon as this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with the latest in <a href=\"http:\/\/advocate.com\/lgbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LGBTQ<\/a>+ news and politics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/signup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for The Advocate&#8217;s email newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a 6:51 p.m. Truth Social post, Trump wrote that \u201cALL of the Hostages will be released very soon,\u201d and that Israel will withdraw troops \u201cto an agreed upon line\u201d as part of what he called a \u201cStrong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.\u201d The plan, brokered with Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, represents the most significant diplomatic breakthrough since the Gaza conflict began two years and one day ago, when Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli civilians, killing more than 1,200 people and sparking a war that has since killed tens of thousands.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/lara-trump-biden-transgender-events\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lara Trump awkwardly blames Biden\u2019s support of trans people for high gas prices and Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Associated Press White House reporter Seung Min Kim confirmed on X, formerly <a href=\"http:\/\/advocate.com\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, that, according to AP sources, Hamas will release all 20 living hostages this weekend as Israel withdraws from the majority of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The deal follows an explosive September <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2025\/09\/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry, which concluded that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, citing systematic killings, starvation, and the targeting of civilians, including children. U.N. officials have urged Israel to end the war and lift the siege immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/harvey-milk-club-rejects-biden\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LGBTQ+ group pulls Biden endorsement over &#8216;perilous&#8217; handling of Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNICEF says more than 64,000 children have been killed or maimed. If implemented, the agreement could mark the first real pause in one of the century\u2019s most catastrophic wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump announced Wednesday evening that Israel and Hamas have \u201cboth signed off\u201d on the first phase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,12,5618,5617,451,803,3,452,453,4477],"class_list":{"0":"post-210433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-gaza","12":"tag-hamas","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}