{"id":76578,"date":"2025-10-13T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76578"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:15:54","slug":"hamas-begins-hostage-release-under-trump-brokered-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/hamas-begins-hostage-release-under-trump-brokered-ceasefire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Begins Hostage Release Under Trump-Brokered Ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hamas on Monday released the first seven of 20 surviving Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza under a ceasefire deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the two-year war.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement provides for the release of all remaining hostages in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The first handover coincided with Trump\u2019s surprise visit to Israel, where he declared the Gaza war \u201cover\u201d and urged both sides to embrace peace.<\/p>\n<p>Emotional crowds gathered in Tel Aviv\u2019s Hostages Square to celebrate the news. \u201cI\u2019m torn between joy and sorrow for those who won\u2019t return,\u201d said Noga, a relative of one captive.<\/p>\n<p>In Gaza, residents expressed relief as calm returned to parts of the devastated enclave. \u201cWe will pitch a tent next to the rubble and wait for reconstruction,\u201d said Fatima Salem, who returned to her destroyed home.<\/p>\n<p>The war has claimed more than 67,000 lives in Gaza, according to UN figures, with women and children accounting for over half of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s peace plan, to be discussed at an upcoming Egypt summit, includes Israel\u2019s partial withdrawal and the creation of a multinational peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; Hamas on Monday released the first seven of 20 surviving Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza under a ceasefire deal brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the two-year war. The agreement provides for the release of all remaining hostages in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76580,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76578\/revisions\/76580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}