President Donald Trump announced on October 8, 2025, that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of his Gaza peace plan, brokered in Egypt, involving the release of all remaining hostages and a partial Israeli troop withdrawal.
The deal follows Hamas’s October 7, 2024, attack that killed over 1,200 Israelis and Israel’s response causing tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the agreement as a diplomatic success, with bipartisan U.S. support and cautious optimism in Gaza despite ongoing strikes.
Let’s be. Wry clear this is a ceasefire not a settlement of the war. Much. Ore to do before it is over. This is the end of the beginning not the end of the war.