{"id":80733,"date":"2025-10-04T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=80733"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:31:15","slug":"trump-urges-israel-to-gaza-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-urges-israel-to-gaza-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges Israel to halt Gaza strikes, says Hamas is ready for \u201clasting peace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough may be on the horizon in the nearly two-year <a title=\"Israel Seizes Gaza Aid Flotilla, 29 Turks Among Detained\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/israel-seizes-gaza-aid-flotilla-29-turks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaza<\/a> war. Hamas has announced its willingness to release all remaining hostages and hand over the administration of Gaza to an independent technocratic body, while requesting further negotiations on several key issues. Responding to the move, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Israel to \u201cimmediately halt its bombing campaign,\u201d declaring that Hamas appeared \u201cready for lasting peace.\u201d In a video statement, Trump thanked Erdo\u011fan and other regional leaders, calling it \u201ca very special day\u201d and adding that peace in the Middle East \u201chas never been this close.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hamas\u2019s response<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a written statement, Hamas said it accepted Trump\u2019s proposal for a comprehensive prisoner exchange, pledging to release all Israeli captives \u2014 both living and deceased \u2014 within 72 hours of a ceasefire. The group also expressed support for transferring Gaza\u2019s governance to a nonpartisan Palestinian administration backed by Arab and Islamic countries. However, Hamas did not agree to full disarmament and stated that discussions on its future political role in Gaza would continue.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump\u2019s remarks<\/h2>\n<p>Trump posted on social media: \u201cBased on Hamas\u2019s statement, I believe they are ready for lasting PEACE. Israel must immediately stop bombing Gaza so we can safely and quickly get the hostages out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, in a video message, he added: \u201cI want to thank the nations that helped bring us here \u2014 Qatar, T\u00fcrkiye, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and others. Today is a big day. We are very close to achieving peace in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Israel\u2019s reaction<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said Israel was \u201cprepared to implement the first phase\u201d of Trump\u2019s plan, which includes the release of all hostages. However, the statement emphasized that any end to the war must align with Israel\u2019s security principles. Israeli media reported that the military had been instructed to scale back airstrikes in Gaza as diplomatic talks gain momentum.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Global responses<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u2013 President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan: \u201cHamas\u2019s response represents a constructive and significant step toward lasting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres: \u201cThis historic opportunity must be seized to end the tragic conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: \u201cThe release of hostages and peace for Gaza are finally within reach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer: \u201cAll parties must now act decisively to end this war.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hamas signals conditional support for Trump\u2019s Gaza proposal, agrees to release hostages\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCr4wmRBk6c\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough may be on the horizon in the nearly two-year Gaza war. Hamas has announced its willingness to release all remaining hostages and hand over the administration of Gaza to an independent technocratic body, while requesting further negotiations on several key issues. Responding to the move, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Israel to \u201cimmediately &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":80734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[14217,77263,78491,3824,3759,267,270,14127,77647],"class_list":["post-80733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-ceasefire","tag-donald-trump","tag-erdogan","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu","tag-peace","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80735,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80733\/revisions\/80735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}