Marco Rubio

You may get the hostages back.

You may get a cessation of hostilities.

But in the long term, it's going to happen all over again.

So both are going on at the same time.

But priority number one, the one that we think we can achieve something very quickly on, hopefully, is the release of all of the hostages in exchange for Israel moving back to that yellow line, which is.

basically where they stood at the middle part of last month, of August.

And that's the one we're focused on.

Even as I speak to you now, there are people meeting on that.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says nothing is guaranteed.

but he celebrated President Trump's peace plan.

Here's Rubio on Fox News.

This plan has Hamas releasing all remaining 48 hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinians.

Rubio says he is confident in this first phase.

But the second portion, deciding who will govern Gaza after the war, that is still under negotiation.

In Trump's 20-point plan, Hamas has no role in governing Gaza, and it allows for a Palestinian state.

Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.

Hamas has accepted the entire construct of President Trump's proposal for releasing the hostages.

We've got general outlines of it, which Hamas has generally accepted, though not entirely.

Some of it is going to have to be discussed, moving back and forth.

I'm not going to tell you what the framework says, because when you start negotiating these things through the media and so forth, they fall apart.