Trump Announces Breakthrough on Israel-Hamas Deal: Gaza Ceasefire, Hostages to Be Released

US President Donald Trump posted overnight between Wednesday and Thursday that he was proud to announce that Israel and Hamas had both signed off on the first phase of his peace plan. “This means that all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed-upon line.”

The president on Monday evening: I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. 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. All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (Truth).

“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan… BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/lAUxi1UPYh

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 8, 2025

Jerusalem Post: The agreement means that Hamas will release all of the remaining 20 living hostages within the next 72 hours. A Hamas source told al Araby al Jadeed that all of them will be released in a single batch during the first phase of the deal. The deal is expected to be signed in Egypt on Thursday afternoon, sources in the Hamas terrorist organization told Lebanese outlet al Mayadeen (JPost).

Benjamin Netanyahu: With the help of the Name – we’re bringing everyone back (Netanyahu).

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will begin at noon Thursday, with all hostages to be released within 72 hours, The Jerusalem Post learned

President Trump said Wednesday he expects Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages on Monday — as families celebrated the breakthrough peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian terror group.

“The big thing is hostages are going to be released probably, our time, would be, probably Monday,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, in an interview hours after he announced that both Hamas and Israel had agreed to the first phase of his 20-point plan for peace in the Middle East.

“They’re in a terrible situation there,” Trump said of the 48 hostages believed to be in Gaza, more than half of whom are thought to be dead.

“God bless you, Mr. President. God Bless America,” another family member said in the video shared by the White House.

Israel will be releasing hundreds of jihad terrorists  including the Oct 7th terrorists.

Israel’s Most Dangerous Prisoner On the Way to Freedom As Hamas Demands Release of October 7th Terror Chiefs

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich believes that releasing Palestinian prisoners, whom he referred to as “the next generation of terror leadership,” will have consequences, including the released prisoners planning to “do everything to continue spilling rivers of Jewish blood.”

President Trump told Netanyahu,  ‘Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi, they can’t fight the world.’ And he understands that very well.”Incredible that the world stands with Islamic barbarity.

https://twitter.com/EliAfriatISR/status/1976060653137014929

All hostages are returning home.
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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) October 9, 2025

TRUMP’S WITHDRAWAL MAP. FIRST STAGE OF THE DEAL

This is reportedly the latest withdrawal map presented by President Trump, showing the yellow line, the boundary to which IDF forces will withdraw to enable the release of hostages under the first phase of the agreement.

Key… pic.twitter.com/NgtlgsXWF9

— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) October 9, 2025

Trump reveals when he expects hostages to be released after Israel-Hamas peace deal as families celebrate on phone call with prez

BREAKING: Gaza s are celebrating the deal and took to the streets chanting, “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya Yehud — the people of Gaza will return.”

This is a reference to Mohammed mass-slaughtering Jews.

They truly never learn.pic.twitter.com/sgR9mZlxrT

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 9, 2025

Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi: We are signing off on the next massacre and kidnappings

By: Israel National News, October 9, 2025:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi warns against deal with Hamas, says it means ‘signing approval for the next massacre with our own hands.’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother-in-law, Dr. Hagai Ben-Artzi, spoke in the Arutz Sheva – Israel National News studio Thursday, offering scathing criticism and dire warnings regarding Israel’s agreement with Hamas.

When asked if he also feels a sense of joy at the news, Ben-Artzi replied: “There is always joy. I rejoiced when the three soldiers were freed in the Jibril Deal, and I rejoiced when Gilad Shalit returned. But at the time, even back then and even more so today, I knew that with our own hands we were signing the next kidnapping, the next massacre, and the next murders.”

[Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the October 7 massacre, was released from prison in 2011 along with 1,026 other terrorists as part of the “Shalit deal,” in which IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was released from Hamas captivity.

Several other “Shalit deal” terrorists have also returned to terror, as have terrorists released in the November 2023 and January 2025 prisoner swaps with Hamas.]

Ben-Artzi noted that when he opposed the Shalit deal in 2011 and was labeled a “spoilsport,” he never imagined that its price would ultimately be “around two thousand dead and murdered, and thousands more wounded. And even now, we cannot fathom the scale of the next disaster we are signing onto at this very moment. We don’t yet see the faces or the names, the towns and the homes — but for me, it’s already real. For forty years already, I’ve fought against the moral abomination of releasing terrorists.”

Responding to claims that Israel is now paying the price for Netanyahu’s refusal to approve a Shin Bet plan to eliminate Yahya Sinwar, Ben-Artzi stressed that mistakes are not corrected by making even greater mistake: “We are caught in a chain reaction. We erred with the Jibril Deal forty years ago and should have learned our lesson. Rabin later regretted that mistake when he realized it had led to the First Intifada, with hundreds killed and thousands wounded. A rational person learns from the past, but for forty years already we’ve been making deals, and each time the price that we pay after the deal is greater, because we are not only releasing the next terror leaders but also creating motivation to continue the murder and massacre and kidnappings because see, it pays to kill Jews.”

When asked whether he understands that the majority of Israelis rejoice at the signing of this deal, Ben-Artzi replied, “I’m speaking about facts — about what happened after the Jibril Deal, what happened after the Oslo Accords, what happened after the Shalit Deal.”

He added that the Israeli public is experiencing a kind of “psychosis,” demanding the return of a child now held in Gaza while ignoring and erasing the future price that will be paid.

“We’ve been in a psychosis since the Yom Kippur War, which traumatized us with thousands of dead. We’ve entered a mindset of surrendering and retreating just to get a little quiet. This path leads to disaster, because the enemy understands our weak point—and they will exploit it completely,” Ben-Artzi warned.

According to him, Israel is walking into a trap that could come at a horrifying price: “In this agreement, we’ve effectively agreed to leave Gaza’s residents when Gaza is in ruins, and they have nowhere to return to. A million people are in tents, in the rain, and reconstruction will take years. We’ve brought them back to a refugee reality like in 1948, and they now have a perfect solution, and they will begin a ‘March of Return’ to return not to Gaza or Jabaliya, but to Ashkelon, Ashdod, and Be’er Sheva.”

Trump gives Hamas a new lease on life

By: Robert Spencer, October 9, 2025:

Trump quotes the Sermon on the Mount, writing “BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.” All right. Here’s another passage of scripture for him: “They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)

The reason why this peace deal is no cause for celebration is simple: it will not bring peace. It is based on a fundamental misunderstanding or willful refusal to understand why Hamas is fighting and what the group is all about. Hamas has no interest whatsoever in establishing a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” except on its own terms, which would require the total destruction of Israel and its replacement with a Sharia state.

What Trump — along with every other leader in the Western world — does not or will not understand is that Hamas is an Islamic group. An Islamic group can be reasonably expected to follow Islamic law. Islamic law does not allow for the establishment of peace between a Muslim entity and a non-Muslim one on an indefinite basis, with,  say, two states living side by side and respecting each other’s right to exist. No, the imperative of Islamic conquest encompasses every non-Muslim entity. Muslims must fight unbelievers “until persecution is no more and religion is all for Allah.” (Qur’an 8:39) If Israel’s religion is not all for Allah, the jihad against it will continue. What’s more, Israel is on land that Muslims must ruled. Therefore the Muslims have an imperative before Allah to “drive them out from where they drove you out.” (Qur’an 2:191)

Yet if all that is true, why is Hamas making peace at all? Because it is losing. Consider this passage from a manual of Islamic law: “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o9.16)

Note that this can only be done if “Muslims are weak,” so that they can gather strength to fight again — not so that they can live peacefully with non-Muslims indefinitely. The same legal manual also quotes this verse of the Qur’an: “So do not falter and cry out for peace when you have the upper hand, and Allah is with you, and he will not deprive you of your actions.” (47:35) Thus Hamas would not be calling for peace at all if it felt it was in a position of strength. “Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim…” (Reliance of the Traveller, o9.16)

The bottom line: Hamas is feeling the heat and wants this peace deal in order to regroup and emerge in a stronger position. The one certainty here is that there will not be a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” but that Hamas and/or other Islamic jihadis will murder more Israelis and continue to try to destroy the Jewish state.

Avid to be known as the great peacemaker, Trump has destroyed Israel’s chance of really gaining a respite in the endless jihad war against it. That respite would have come from destroying Hamas utterly. Instead, Hamas lives on. The jihad never ends, but the destruction of Hamas would have set it back years. The destruction of Hamas and the toppling of the Islamic Republic of Iran would have set it back decades. Trump has prevented both. If there is a Nobel Jihad Prize, he should get it.

“Hamas accepts Trump peace plan ending 2 years of war in Gaza, returning hostages,” by Caitlin McFall, Jennifer Griffin, Efrat Lachter, and Emma Bussey, Fox News, October 8, 2025:

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 across the Gaza Strip.

Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday to make the announcement: “I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. 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. All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!”

Speaking to Sean Hannity, Trump said he expects the hostages to be released on Monday. He did not elaborate on whether he would be going to the region, although Netanyahu invited him to address the Israeli parliament on Sunday.

Moments before the president’s announcement, photos emerged from the negotiation room in Sharm el-Sheikh showing senior officials embracing and shaking hands as reports indicated significant progress toward a hostage release deal. Retired General Nitzan Alon was seen shaking hands with Qatar’s Prime Minister Al-Thani, with special envoy Steve Witkoff in the background.

On the other side, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya and other senior officials appeared smiling. An Israeli source said preparations are underway for an official announcement of the agreement, while other officials expect it to be signed as early as Thursday.

Israeli media reported Israel and the terror group will sign the deal Thursday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement, “With God’s help, we will bring them all home.” Netanyahu added in a statement in Hebrew: “A great day for Israel. Tomorrow I will convene the government to approve the agreement and bring all our dear hostages home. I thank the heroic soldiers of the IDF and all the security forces — thanks to their courage and sacrifice we have reached this day. I thank from the bottom of my heart President Trump and his team for mobilizing for this sacred mission of freeing our hostages. With God’s help, together we will continue to achieve all our objectives and expand peace with our neighbors.”

The terrorist organization Hamas announced in an official statement, “After responsible and serious negotiations conducted by the movement and the Palestinian resistance factions regarding President Trump’s proposal in Sharm el-Sheikh, with the aim of ending the war of extermination against our Palestinian people and the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, Hamas announces the reaching of an agreement that ends the war on Gaza, provides for the withdrawal of the occupation, allows the entry of aid and implements a prisoner exchange.

“We greatly appreciate the efforts of the mediators in Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, and thank U.S. President Donald Trump for his efforts to bring about a final end to the war and the full withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip. We call on President Trump, the guarantor states of the agreement, and all Arab, Islamic and international parties to oblige the government of the occupation to fulfill all the agreement’s commitments, and not to allow it to evade or delay implementation of the accords.”

Dr. Majed al-Ansari, Spokesperson for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated on X: “The mediators announce that an agreement was reached tonight on all terms and mechanisms for implementing the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, which will lead to stopping the war, releasing Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners, and allowing aid to enter.”…

Source: https://gellerreport.com/2025/10/trump-announces-breakthrough-on-israel-hamas-deal-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-to-be-released.html/