Israel and Hamas agree to part of Trump's Gaza peace plan, will free hostages and prisoners
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President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37084577

WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday in announcing the outlines of the biggest breakthrough in months in the two-year-old war.

“This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” Trump wrote on social media. “All Parties will be treated fairly!”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on social media, “With God’s help we will bring them all home.” Hamas said separately that the deal would ensure the withdrawal of Israeli troops as well as allow for the entry of aid and exchange of hostages and prisoners.

Hamas plans to release all 20 living hostages this weekend, people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press, while the Israeli military will begin a withdrawal from the majority of Gaza.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    153·
    9 days ago

    So, Bibi kills 10000 more kids first, and the media covers for him, and then the ‘deal’ ‘falls apart’ when ‘hamas leadership’ is hiding in a ‘humanitarian envoy’ and the IDF has to blow it up because reasons.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    71·
    8 days ago

    This was an incredibly heavy handed forced surrender. This deal was bad and the option was accept or else things will get worse. Having Trump and Bibi make any agreement completely worthless. You can’t take any words at face value or make future analysis because these people never hold true their word. So I’ll believe the deal when its been solidly inplace and theyre in phase 2 with phase 3 agreed on.

    Talking on the deal in a pretend world where we can actually trust that its going through.

    If Gaza can get custodianship transferred to a Palestinian group instead of right wing western technocrats then this entire deal could be salvaged. But otherwise its a shit deal and this entire war has been for nothing (from the Palestinian perspective). They managed to nuke isreals reputation but found out the hard way that countries don’t go to war for moral reason and their allies weren’t shit.

    Isreal has gotten everything they wanted and more with the costs being minimal casualties and their entire nations PR nuked into oblivion. I think majority of the average world citizens will for the rest of their lives perceive Isreal badly but day to day will completely forget the entire conflict so life will return to normal for isreal in 3-5 years.

    I think this deal might be isreal luring hamas out of Gaza city just to get hostages and strike them before they move into gaza city.