The US president-elect’s envoy took part in the Qatar-mediated talks.
Israel and Hamas have struck a deal that secures the release of all hostages held by the Palestinian militant group, US President-elect Donald Trump has announced
“We have a deal for the hostages in the Middle East,” Trump posted on his TruthSocial platform on Wednesday. “They will be released shortly.”
According to multiple media outlets, the agreement approved in Qatar involves a 42-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners, including all Israelis taken captive in the October 7, 2023 Hamas incursion from Gaza.
“This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies,” Trump added in another post.
His national security team will “continue to work closely with Israel and our Allies to make sure Gaza NEVER again becomes a terrorist safe haven,” the president-elect added. “This is only the beginning of great things to come for America, and indeed, the World!”
Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, reportedly joined the talks in Doha and played a key role in persuading the Israeli delegation to accept the deal.
“This deal was achieved because of the help of many and demonstrates that a policy of peace through strength wins,” Witkoff told Israel’s Channel 12 on Wednesday. “Thank you to the Israeli negotiating teams, thank you to the Qataris, thank you to Egypt, thank you to the Biden administration, and most of all to Donald Trump, whose policy of peace through strength is the one that won.”
Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has met with senior Hamas officials to persuade the Palestinian group to accept the agreement. Egyptian and Turkish intelligence chiefs also took part in the negotiations, along with the heads of Israel’s security agencies, Mossad and Shin Bet.
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And he’s not even president yet. I always wonder how the trump haters read this type of news. It feels like it’s becoming harder to hate on him thus a lot of what people hate on becomes more and more petty.
The ceasefire occurred as Trump probably threatened to cut-off all monetary and hardware aid to Israel, but his past history of giving the Israeli J3w$ everything they wanted in the past may negate this projected assumption.
The other problem may be that Trump International wants the wrecked area of Gaza so that he can build Trump Hotels, Resorts and infrastructures.
I wonder how much of Trump International stock and options that both Bibi and Zelensky have been gifted / given / promised..?
Nothing is going to change.
There are still thousands of bodies under the rubble, and the illegal J3wi$h Israeli settlements will continue.
Maybe it should be the J3w$ who actually need to leave the area…they can go to the labour camps that their co-hort, J3w *Joseph Stalin (*aka Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, from the country of Georgia where he had a career as a criminal robber…) built in the Siberian polar region using GULAG forced labour.
Sending them to the frozen hell that their predecessors created would be a good idea, as that way Putin can keep an eye on them and not allow for Zionist exploitations of other nations and….OH!…I forgot;
We already have the United States of Israel, or ‘Israel West’ as the U.S. is now being called.