{"id":484193,"date":"2025-10-08T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484193\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T23:41:14","slug":"trump-says-israel-and-hamas-both-sign-off-on-first-phase-of-gaza-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484193\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Israel and Hamas &#8216;both sign off&#8217; on first phase of Gaza peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio passes Trump a note on &#8216;very close&#8217; dealpublished at 23:45 BST<\/p>\n<p>23:45 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\/04\/a1462f87-b5c0-43b2-8a08-2f7c7a8f1bff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Bernd Debusmann Jr<\/strong><br \/>Reporting from the White House<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marco Rubio and Donald Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/93ceb7fa-6134-4c61-ae38-51ed6670ee93.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"602\" height=\"338\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first inkling that there was some movement on the Gaza deal tonight came earlier today, at the tail end of a nearly two-hour event focused on domestic law enforcement and Antifa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A few minutes before the end of the event, Secretary of State Marco Rubio entered the room, taking a seat near Trump, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From where I stood in a scrum of reporters on the far side of the room, Rubio seemed &#8211; at least to me &#8211; to be somewhat nervous, and fidgety. He later scrawled a note on a piece of White House stationary, handing it to Trump and moments later walking over to him, bending down and whispering in his ear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump looked at the note and pursed his lips, nodding, seemingly satisfied. As reporters yelled questions in his directions, he stopped us and said that the note informed him that \u201cwe are very close to a deal\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He exited the room just moments later, saying he had to go focus on the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Notably, earlier in the same Trump was asked whether any trip to the Middle East could potentially include Gaza.  \u201cI may do that,\u201d he said, adding that he would be \u201cgoing to Egypt\u201d and \u201cmaking the rounds\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Marco Rubio and Donald Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ee7183cf-dbf6-46d6-9160-2fea9e4636d5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"607\" height=\"341\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rubio passes Trump a note on &#8216;very close&#8217; dealpublished at 23:45 BST 23:45 BST Bernd Debusmann JrReporting from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-484193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115341196862646378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484193","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=484193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}