Late on October 8th President Donald Trump wrote on social media: “I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan.” Hamas, Israel and Qatar confirmed the deal.

President Trump announced on Wednesday night that Israel and Hamas signed off on the first phase of a peace agreement. Mona Yacoubian, director and senior adviser of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies,

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he may travel to the Middle East this weekend as his negotiators seek to seal a Gaza hostages-for-ceasefire deal.

Envoys from Israel and Hamas will hope to narrow those gaps when they start indirect talks in Egypt on October 6th. Their goal is to agree on at least the first phase of the plan, which calls for a ceasefire in Gaza,

During a meeting at the White House, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed President Donald Trump a note which said, “we are very close to a deal in the Middle East.”

President Donald Trump told reporters he received an update from Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding the Middle East negotiations, Wednesday, during an event at the White House.

The note that Rubio handed Trump during an unrelated meeting at the White House implores the president to give his OK to a social post related to a deal.

Eventually, Abu Mohammed and his family reached their breaking point. Water was vanishing on the outskirts of Baghdad, and the orchards where he and his sons once harvested dates, apples, apricots and citrus fruits were drying up.