Early on Thursday afternoon (9.10.2025) the historical agreement is expected to be signed between Hamas and Israel under the watchful look and under the guidance of Donald Trump.
At 12:00 (Israel’s time and time in Greece) it is expected to sign the agreement to implement the first stage of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan to cease fire in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas, a source told Reuters.
The truce is expected to be implemented on the field in the Gaza Strip as soon as the deal is signed, the source added.
New bombings in Gaza just before signing
Civil protection in the Gaza Strip spoke of the morning of repeated Israeli air strikes in the pocket, hours after the announcement at night that an agreement between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire was closed.
“After the deal was announced at night (…) explosions were reported, especially in northern Gaza,” Mohammed al -Muger said, speaking “intense air bombings in the city of Gaza”.
The historical agreement
The Israel and Hamas today reached an agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages in the context of Donald Trump’s plan, with the aim of ending two years of destructive war on Palestinian territory.
According to sources in the French Agency, the agreement will be signed to Egypt After four days of marathon indirect negotiations at the Sharm El-Siech resort with the participation of international actors, including the United States.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He said he would convene his cabinet today to “validate the agreement and repatriate all our precious hostages”. ‘It’s a big day for Israel’he said.
In a message to Truth Social, Trump said he “proudly announces that Israel and Hamas have both accepted the first phase” of his plan. ‘This is going to say that All hostages will be released very soon And that Israel will withdraw its troops (from Gaza) to the agreed line, the first stages in view of a steady and lasting peace. “
He told Fox News that hostages ‘They will have returned on Monday’including “the bodies of the dead (hostage)”. Prior to the announcement of the deal, Donald Trump announced a close visit at the end of the week in the Middle East.
The Israeli army said it was preparing to welcome hostages, but also to be able to face “all scenarios”. He called on residents not to return to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, where he continues his military operations.
Returning to Monday the hostages
According to a source in the Hamas bays, the living Israeli hostages, at least 20 of the 47 held in Gaza, They will all be liberated in return for the release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. And “the first maps were presented on the Israeli side regarding the departure of its troops.” The source did not refer to the dead hostages.
Hamas announced that it reached an agreement “providing for the end of the Gaza war”.
After this announcement, Events of joy, mixed with concernThey were noted in Al-Mauasi, a sector in the southern part of the Gaza Strip where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are concentrated, a French agency reporter noted.
Israel and Hamas said they had agreed to a long-awaited ceasefire and hostage deal, the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end a war in Gaza that has killed more than 67,000 people and reshaped the Middle East https://t.co/gcD0G0uQLc pic.twitter.com/fvrFRvFHGG
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“I am truly happy that the war is over, but at the same time I am afraid of a betrayal, a return to conflicts as during the first truce (November 2023). This time, I hope that our joy is complete, that the nightmare will end, “Tarek al-Faras said.
Qatar, a mediator country, confirmed that “an agreement was concluded for (…) its first phase ceasefire agreement in Gazawhich will lead to the end of the war, to the liberation of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners and to the entrance of humanitarian aid “to Palestinian territory.
Two previous truce
The Trump Plan, announced on September 29, provides for a ceasefire, an exchange of hostages abducted on October 7, 2023 with Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, the gradual departure of the Israeli army from Gaza and Hamas’ disabilities.
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Hamas agreed to release the hostages, but also called for Israel’s complete departure from Gaza. She did not mention her disarmament, a key point of the proposal.
Netanyahu, for his part, stressed that the army would remain in most of Gaza and reiterated that Hamas had to be disarmed.
Two previous truce in November 2023 and early 2025 They had allowed the return of hostages or corpses abducted in exchange for the release of prisoners of Palestinians before they collapsed.
The attack on October 7 caused the deaths of 1,219 people, most of the civilians, according to a report by the French Agency based on official data. Of the 251 people who had been abducted that day, 47 are still hostage to Gaza, of whom at least 25 are dead, according to the army.
In response, Israel launched a military campaign that caused disasters on Palestinian territory and, according to the Hamas health ministry, claimed the lives of at least 67,183 people, mostly civilians.
The UN has declared a stake in a section of Gaza and its researchers argue that Israel is committing a genocide there. Israel denies.