Two envoys of US President Donald Trump headed to Egypt on Saturday to discuss the release of hostages in Gaza after Hamas agreed to his ceasefire proposal, while Israeli forces launched deadly strikes across the territory.
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depart at the conclusion of a joint press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025.
Two envoys of US President Donald Trump headed to Egypt on Saturday to discuss the release of hostages in Gaza after Hamas agreed to his ceasefire proposal, while Israeli forces launched deadly strikes across the territory. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff were expected to finalise details on the release of hostages and discuss a deal pushed by Trump to end the nearly two-year war between Israel and Hamas, a White House official said.U.S. President Donald Trump departs the White House as he heads to Trump National Golf Club on October 4, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump is spending the weekend in Washington amid the federal government shutdown after Congress and the White House failed to reach a funding deal. Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP Trump’s proposal calls for a halt to hostilities, the release of hostages within 72 hours, a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Hamas’s disarmament. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the conclusion of a joint press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025. It also stipulates that Hamas and other factions “not have any role in the governance of Gaza”, with administration of the territory instead taken up by a technocratic body overseen by a post-war transitional authority headed by Trump himself. “President Trump’s demand to stop the war immediately is essential to prevent serious and irreversible harm to the hostages,” the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, an Israeli group that has campaigned for the release of captives, said in a statement. Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the Gaza civil defence agency, told AFP that the night was “very violent”, adding that 20 homes were destroyed overnight.“The IDF troops are still operating in Gaza City, and returning to it is extremely dangerous. For your safety, avoid returning north or approaching areas of IDF troop activity anywhere — including in the southern Gaza Strip,” the military’s Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, said on X. Israeli media reported that the military had shifted to a defensive posture in Gaza following Trump’s call, though the military did not confirm this to AFP. Of those killed in Gaza City, 17 died in an Israeli air strike on the home of the Abdul Aal family in the city’s Al-Tuffa neighbourhood, hospitals said.Jamila al-Sayyid, 24, a resident of Gaza City’s Al-Zeitoun neighbourhood, said, “I was happy when Trump announced a ceasefire, but the warplanes did not stop.” An AFP journalist in the coastal area of Al-Mawasi reported hearing celebratory cries of “Allahu akbar!” from tents housing Palestinians as news of Hamas’s statement spread. “The best thing is that President Trump himself announced a ceasefire, and Netanyahu will not be able to escape this time… He is the only one who can force Israel to comply and stop the war,” said Sami Adas, 50, who lives in a tent in Gaza City with his family. The war was triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 67,074 Palestinians, according to health ministry figures in the Hamas-run territory that the United Nations considers reliable. Their data does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but indicates that more than half of the dead are women and children.
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