President Trump stops another war and frees the hostages.
Hamas agrees to President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan that calls for release of all 48 hostages and complete Israeli withdrawal in exchange for Hamas disarmament.
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Hamas has agreed to a peace deal pushed by President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza and return the hostages, two years after the terrorist network attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, sparking not only the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust, but a deadly war and a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
Trump Has A Gaza Peace Deal. Will It Hold?
The chance of continued peace between Israel and Hamas depends on bigger and more complex decisions that there's no guarantee Donald Trump will pursue.
Six months ago, Israel broke the ceasefire he brokered, escalating the killing of Palestinians and initiating a man-made famine without consequences from the U.S.
The president’s plan envisions beginning the reconstruction of the Palestinian territory, with Israeli operations ending, Hamas disarming and Gaza receiving humanitarian aid at a level it has not seen for months.
The vision is widely understood as prioritizing a political win for Trump, but he argued on Truth Social on Wednesday that it benefits all involved: “All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT day.”
Now that Trump lost the Nobel peace prize, is he going to continue to care about Palestinians? Or was this all theater? What comes next?
Many observers suspected that, between Trump’s urgency for an agreement and their own interests, Netanyahu and Hamas were both keen on the first stage of his plan that is now beginning: exchanging prisoners. However, what comes next is much harder, because Trump’s outline ties ending the war to resolving a range of questions about the future of Gaza, Hamas and Western and Arab enforcement of a ceasefire — contentious matters that could take months to compromise on.
Sustaining a truce beyond a prisoner release while those questions remain under discussion will likely require the U.S. to hold firm against any attempt by Netanyahu to abandon the negotiations and once again say the only way to deal with Hamas is through continued fighting. (The Israeli leader partially
limited the Gaza campaign after Trump issued his plan, although U.S.-backed Israeli
bombing then
continued, killing dozens of Palestinians.)
“You can’t link ending the war to Hamas disarming or to future governance, because we just don’t know how that’s going to play out,”
But he and others described uncertainty about Trump using U.S. leverage to prolong a ceasefire.
Withholding, or threatening to withhold, U.S. military equipment for Israel is the strongest possible tactic, yet it is one that could spark strong rebukes from pro-Israel voices and has been largely ignored by the two U.S. presidents overseeing America’s involvement in Gaza. “It’s the equivalent of questioning the authority of the pope in the 13th century, and it’s not on the table for Trump any more than it was for Biden,”
The chance of continued peace between Israel and Hamas depends on bigger and more complex decisions that there's no guarantee Donald Trump will pursue.
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