Gaza Hostage Deal Marks First Step on Long Road to Peace
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After two years of fighting, Israel and Hamas agreed to release all hostages in Gaza, getting President Trump closer to his goal of resolving the conflict.
While this is a major breakthrough for peace in Gaza, we still have a long way to go to end this war.
Plus, behind closed doors, Republicans express fears that Trump's shutdown strategy could backfire. And France's president looks for a way out of a fiscal hole that's turned into a political crisis. It's Thursday, October 9th. I'm Kate Bullivant for The Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today. We begin with a breakthrough in the Middle East. Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that would see all of the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip released. There are 20 hostages believed to still be alive in Gaza. Egyptian officials who mediated the talks said Hamas would let them go as soon as Sunday morning, while President Trump told Fox News that they would probably be released on Monday.
Journal deputy world coverage chief Mike Amon said that while the deal marks progress toward peace, the hard part is still to come.
There are a lot of moving parts of this agreement, but this is the first step. And to make it hold, President Trump is going to have to both pressure Israel to not start the war again if Hamas doesn't follow through right away, and he will have to pressure Muslim world leaders to stay on the back of Hamas to follow through with its own agreements. Hamas negotiators have confirmed that they will release the hostages. They've agreed to a prisoner exchange. And they have also conditioned this on the end of the war. Now, these are all very vague terms and are going to require a lot of negotiation going forward. Hamas is not going to give up the hostages without getting something in return.
The deal reached yesterday, which is the first phase of Trump's plan to end the war, also includes the opening of a border crossing to allow humanitarian aid into the enclave, the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and the withdrawal of Israeli troops in Gaza to an agreed-upon area, though crucial details are still being hashed out and could still derail the agreement. And then there's a host of other details that'll need to be resolved in the next phase of the peace plan. Here's Mike again.
there are still major obstacles to getting a deal done. And some of those obstacles have been there for months, if not years, and it's the same things that have bedeviled negotiators. Among them are, when will the IDF, the Israeli military, withdraw completely from Gaza? This plan right now leaves that completely vague, and that is a crucial point for Hamas. Another major point is, will Hamas disarm? Hamas doesn't want to disarm, and Israel has said that its war aim is to destroy Hamas, or at least to disarm it. So that is a major point going forward. Peace cannot happen without some kind of agreement along those lines.
What breakthrough has occurred between Israel and Hamas?
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