After months of gridlock, President Donald Trump finally landed a long-sought Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza after a huge diplomatic blitz.
09:00, Fri, Oct 10, 2025 Updated: 09:01, Fri, Oct 10, 2025
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Palestinians celebrate upon hearing news of the ceasefire. (Image: Getty)
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organisations and private-sector players, US officials said on Thursday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss details that were not authorised for release, said US Central Command is going to establish a “civil-military coordination centre” in Israel that will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid as well as logistical and security assistance into the territory wracked by two years of war.
Members of the armed forces of Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are expected to be embedded with the team of 200 US troops, according to one of the officials. The news comes after Israel’s Cabinet early Friday approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas.
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The Foreign Secretary has dodged questions on whether Israel needs new political leadership, the PA news agency reports.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain, Yvette Cooper was asked about whether the removal of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and Hamas in Palestine was necessary to get long-term peace in the region.
She said:
What we’ve had so far is now the detailed agreement on the first phase that was around five of the 20 points of the plan that was set out have now been agreed to in detail as part of phase one.
The first thing is that that has to be implemented, and there’s a huge amount of work, particularly on the humanitarian aid.
Asked about reports of continued bombing inside Gaza, Ms Cooper said the Government wants to see “a complete end to all fighting” immediately.
Yvette Cooper is on the media round this morning. (Image: Getty)
Ceasefire 'has to be beginning of the end of the war'
The ceasefire in Gaza must be the beginning of the end of the war, the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, told Radio 4’s Today Programme.
She said: “This has to be the beginning of the end of the war, and the delivery of a just and lasting peace, of security for Palestinians and Israelis alike.
“We’ve had two agonising years of suffering, tens of thousands of lives lost, hostages being held far away from their families for two years.”
Netanyahu 'stopped listening to everyone apart from Trump'
Labour Chair of the House of Commons' foreign affairs boday, Dame Emily Thornberry, said that the peace deal wouldn’t have happened without Donald Trump, because the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had stopped listening to everyone apart from him.
She added that the US president “needs to remain engaged, because this is not peace, this is only a ceasefire”.
The MP also said:
I’m completely delighted. I’m totally delighted.
We have had two years of absolute misery, these poor hostages held underground for all this time, and their grieving, frantic families. Thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians being killed in Gaza – it’s just been appalling to watch it.
So, I’m so grateful, I’m so pleased that we finally have a ceasefire, that aid is going to go into Gaza unhindered, that the UN will be handing it out, that the hostages will come home, and the killing’s going to stop.
Netanyahu and Trump have been discussing a peace deal. (Image: Getty)
There was reportedly some confusion on Thursday as regards the timing of the first phase of Trump's peace deal, and uncertainty about many of its main principles.
The office of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the ceasefire would start once the pact was ratified by the country's government.
But an Israeli government spokesperson suggested that it would begin within 24 hours of the cabinet meeting.
The Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Dame Emily Thornberry, has said regarding former prime minister Sir Tony Blair’s involvement in a Board of Peace to oversee an interim governing authority for Gaza:
I’m completely relaxed about whoever it is.
I don’t really care. What matters to me is what works.
You know, so, if Tony Blair, for example, has trust of all parties, then fine – and he has a role and he wants to do it, and it’s felt that he has a positive role to play, then fine, yes, good. Or anyone else – I really don’t mind.
All I care about is that we don’t have Hamas involved – they have no future in Gaza – and we make sure that we’re heading towards two states and we’re heading towards peace.
Emily Thornberry is Chair of the House of Commons' foreign affairs body. (Image: Getty)
Hostages and prisoners are set to be echanged. (Image: Getty)
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