{"id":472231,"date":"2025-10-03T23:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/472231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T23:12:16","slug":"live-updates-trump-tells-israel-to-stop-bombing-gaza-as-hamas-agrees-to-release-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/472231\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza as Hamas agrees to release hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.files.bbci.co.uk\/core\/website\/assets\/static\/news\/incident-types\/analysis.77b314ef10.svg\" alt=\"Analysis\" draggable=\"false\" class=\"ssrcss-to2z4d-ContributorImageComponent e2hr5uu0\"\/>Momentum behind peace talks gains more steampublished at 00:07 BST<\/p>\n<p>00:07 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/aeae754d-b417-4f00-86d1-3e386e7c6ed2.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Lyse Doucet<\/strong><br \/>Chief international correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No one wants to be seen to say \u201cno\u201d to US President Trump right now \u2013 not even Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their carefully crafted statement, issued under huge pressure and no doubt input from mediators including Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, was a \u201cyes\u201d \u2013 albeit a very incomplete and conditional one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It only highlights a few issues which matter most, including giving up all the hostages, living and dead, ending the war, and accepting that Gaza will be governed by technocrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also made a point  of thanking Trump, along with \u201cthe Arab, Islamic, and international efforts&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hamas\u2019s statement also sidestepped the issues in Trump\u2019s 20-point peace plan which they still reject including the demand to give up their guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their gamble succeeded, at least for now, with a US President who is more focused than ever before on ending this war, who  wants to be seen as a winner; he immediately latched onto Hamas\u2019s reply as proof that peace is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once the Israeli sabbath ends tomorrow, Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Netanyahu seems certain to be more sceptical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the new momentum behind ending Gaza&#8217;s grievous war, which gathered pace last week, has just gained a bit more steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Momentum behind peace talks gains more steampublished at 00:07 BST 00:07 BST Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent No one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-472231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115312770838587968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}