What Does Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Promise?: QuickTake

Israel and Hamas have begun to implement the first steps US President Donald Trump has proposedfor settling their two-year war. Under a preliminary agreementbetween the two sides, Hamas on Oct. 13 freed all 20 of the last surviving hostages it took from Israel and began to return the remains of hostages who are dead, who are thought to number 28. Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinians it had jailed. Earlier, a ceasefire officially went into effect in most of the Gaza Strip, and Israeli forces pulled back from most populated areas in the territory.

While agreeing to release the ...