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(126,446 posts)Mariel Ferragamo
Last updated October 13, 2025 12:01 pm (EST
... More than twenty countries officials gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday to discuss paving the way for peace in Gaza, though neither Israel nor Hamas had a representative at the table ...
... Of the 251 hostages taken by Hamas, 147 were released or exchanged in prior deals. Eight of those released were dead, and the bodies of 41 others were previously recovered by Israel.
As part of the exchange, Israel has begun the release of 250 Palestinian prisoners who are serving life sentences in Israel, as well as 1,700 detainees from Gaza. The first buses of Palestinian prisoners arrived in the West Bank and Gaza on Monday. Israel will also give back fifteen Palestinian bodies for the remains of each Israeli hostage it receives ...
... Gaza will transition to temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee which will operate under an international board headed by Trump ...
... All military, terror, and offensive infrastructure will be destroyed, a condition that Hamas has previously refused and is expected to resist ...
https://www.cfr.org/article/guide-trumps-twenty-point-gaza-peace-deal