Hamas official thanks Trump for peace deal however says Blair not welcome
Former British prime minister Tony Blair wouldn’t be welcome in any post-war function for Gaza, a senior Hamas official stated, whereas praising Donald Trump in securing a peace deal.
Talking to Sky News, Dr Basem Naim stated a ceasefire wouldn’t have been attainable with out Trump however stated the US president should proceed to use strain to Israel to make sure the settlement will not be violated.
He stated:
With out the private interference of president Trump on this case, I don’t assume that it might have occurred to have reached the top of the conflict.
Subsequently, sure, we thank president Trump and his private efforts to intrude and to strain Netanyahu to convey an finish to this bloodbath and slaughtering.
He added that Hamas can be prepared to step apart for a Palestinian physique to control a post-war Gaza, however that they might stay “on the bottom”.
He commented:
We imagine and we hope that president Trump will proceed to intrude personally and to train the utmost strain on Netanyahu to fulfil the duty.
First, as based on the deal, and second, based on the worldwide regulation as an occupying energy, as a result of I believe with out this, with out this private interference from President Trump, this won’t occur.
We’ve already seen Netanyahu talking to the media, threatening to go to conflict once more if this doesn’t occur, if that doesn’t occur.
Nonetheless, he criticised plans for Blair to play any function in the way forward for Gaza.
Naim added:
In the case of Tony Blair, sadly, we Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims and possibly others all over the world have dangerous recollections of him.
We are able to nonetheless keep in mind his function in killing, inflicting hundreds or hundreds of thousands of deaths to harmless civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are able to nonetheless keep in mind him very nicely after destroying Iraq and Afghanistan.
Key occasions
An inventory revealed on Friday by Israel of Palestinian prisoners to be launched as a part of the deal doesn’t embrace high-profile prisoner Marwan Barghouti, the most well-liked Palestinian chief and a probably unifying determine.
Israel views Barghouti and a few others as terrorist masterminds who murdered Israeli civilians and has refused to launch them in previous exchanges.
British prime minister Keir Starmer has agreed to again “substantive humanitarian assist packages” through the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, alongside together with his E3 counterparts, they’ve revealed in an announcement.
The UK, French and German leaders’ assertion, after they spoke on Friday, reads: “We welcome the settlement on a ceasefire within the Center East, the deliberate launch of hostages, and the resumption of humanitarian assist to the civilian inhabitants of Gaza.
“We pay tribute to president Trump’s management on the difficulty, to the diplomatic efforts of the mediators, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, and to the important assist from the broader area to safe the settlement.
“It’s now of utmost significance that each one events implement their obligations in full and immediately.
“We stand able to assist additional talks on the following levels of the plan and to contribute to it.
“As a part of this effort, we agree that the UN safety council ought to give its full backing to the plan and assist its implementation.
“We decide to supporting substantive humanitarian assist packages by UN businesses to be delivered as quickly because the ceasefire enters into impact.”
Jason Burke
Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his pledge to power Hamas to disarm on Friday in a defiant and combative speech, simply an hour after a ceasefire started in Gaza.
In a televised address, Israel’s prime minister stated he had resisted intense home and worldwide strain to attain his intention of making certain “the safety of Israel”, lambasted his critics and reiterated a risk to return to conflict if vital.
“Hamas agreed to the deal solely when it felt the sword resting on its neck and it’s nonetheless on its neck … Hamas might be disarmed and Gaza might be demilitarised … If that is achieved the straightforward approach, a lot the higher. And if not, it will likely be achieved the laborious approach.,” Netanyahu stated.
The deal signed early on Thursday and applied on Friday will result in Hamas releasing 20 living hostages inside 72 hours, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from components of Gaza, and freedom for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Additional steps are nonetheless unclear.
In his deal with, Netanyahu stated that reaching safety for Israel meant “breaking the Iranian axis, of which Hamas is a central element”, suggesting that he had achieved this over the 24 months of relentless battle.
Analysts described the speech as “an election speech”.
Vans loaded with meals and fruit belonging to Palestinian retailers enter the Gaza Strip by way of Salahaddin Road, south of the Netzarim Hall.
Hundreds of officers are set to be deployed for US president Donald Trump’s go to to Israel on Monday, Israeli police stated. Police workers might be stationed alongside key factors of the president’s deliberate journey.
Trump is predicted to be making a brief go to to Israel on Monday, the place is because of deal with its parliament, the Knesset. This is able to mark the primary go to there by a US president in virtually 20 years.
He reportedly won’t be stopping at Tel Aviv’s Hostage Sq. over safety considerations. Nonetheless, the president stated he would “in all probability” be within the area when the remaining hostages in Gaza are launched.
As a part of preparation for Trump’s go to, Israeli police stated it might have officers deployed all alongside the president’s deliberate route to make sure “public security, order, and clean site visitors circulate.”
As Israel prepares to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, the Israel Police is finalizing Operation “Blue Protect 6.” Hundreds of police and Border Cops might be deployed alongside key routes to make sure public security, order, and clean site visitors circulate through the… pic.twitter.com/Xx6cDx6zBS
— Israel Police (@israelpolice) October 10, 2025
Israel releases listing of detainees set to be launched, which doesn’t embrace Barghouti
Israel has launched a listing of the Palestinian detainees that it plans to launch as a part of the ceasefire and hostage launch settlement made with Hamas.
In keeping with Israeli media, of the 250 Palestinian prisoners, 15 might be launched in East Jerusalem, 100 to the West Financial institution, and 135 might be deported.
The BBC reports that originally, when Hamas officers submitted a listing of proposed prisoners to be launched to mediators in Egypt, they known as for the discharge of high-profile Palestinian political figures equivalent to Marwan Barghouti.
The now 66-year-old Barghouti was jailed by an Israeli court docket in 2002 for his function in planning a number of killings through the second intifada. Nonetheless, Netanyahu’s workplace confirmed it refuses to launch Barghouti.
Barghouti, who is usually in comparison with Nelson Mandela by his supporters, is a senior determine in Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah motion. He’s seen as one of many few figures who might meaningfully reconcile rival Palestinian factions, and is vastly standard in each the West Financial institution and Gaza.
The IDF stated as we speak (10 October) that the ceasefire got here into impact at noon. This implies Hamas now has a 72-hour interval to launch all 48 remaining Israeli hostages from Gaza, of which 20 are nonetheless believed to be alive.
William Christou
Hundreds of displaced Palestinians have begun to return dwelling from southern Gaza after a ceasefire got here into impact and Israeli troops withdrew to an agreed-upon redeployment line – the primary time that preventing has stopped within the devastated territory since March.
The Israeli army stated the ceasefire settlement, which was authorised by the Israeli cupboard on Thursday night time and begins the first phase of a US-drafted plan to finish the conflict in Gaza, had been activated at midday native time (0900 GMT) on Friday.
Below the phrases of the plan, Hamas is predicted to launch the 20 dwelling Israeli hostages inside 72 hours, after which Israel will launch 250 Palestinians serving lengthy phrases in Israeli prisons, in addition to 1,700 others detained in Gaza through the conflict.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed credit score for the hostage launch, saying in an deal with on Friday that the “safety of Israel” was what dictated his actions in Gaza.
“I believed that if we utilized heavy army strain, mixed with heavy diplomatic strain, we’d completely have the ability to return all of our hostages,” stated Netanyahu, who additionally thanked the US president, Donald Trump, for his assist to attain the deal.
Avichay Adraee, an Israeli Arabic-language army spokesperson, stated residents of Gaza might return north by way of particular routes, whereas warning them away from areas equivalent to Beit Hanoun and the Rafah border crossing, the place troops remained. Israeli bombing in Gaza had intensified on Friday morning up till the ceasefire started.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated he’s “fulfilling” his promise to convey again all of the hostages, throughout a nationwide deal with.
Netanyahu stated that Israel continues to be “surrounding Hamas from each path” and stated that “Hamas might be disarmed and Gaza might be demilitarised”.
He added: “If that is achieved the straightforward approach – a lot the higher. And if not – it will likely be achieved the laborious approach.”
Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza started heading north within the territory after the Israeli army introduced {that a} ceasefire had come into impact. Israel will reportedly enable 600 assist vans into Gaza each day, based on a report by Israeli Military Radio.
They may even let Palestinians who left the realm through the conflict to return dwelling by the Rafah crossing.
Within the first part of the ceasefire, all Israeli hostages might be freed in return for tons of of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Julian Borger
Inside a number of months, the conflict in Gaza had already made its personal addition to the vocabulary of emergency medical help with the world’s most heartbreaking acronym: WCNSF, “wounded child, no surviving family”.
Over two years of bombardment and famine the issue has worsened, though within the fixed chaos created by Israeli bombing and evacuation orders, which fragment communities and scatter them across the Gaza Strip, it’s laborious to maintain observe of youngsters separated from their households.
The UN’s youngster safety company, Unicef, cited Gaza well being ministry statistics from early September, recording 2,596 kids who had misplaced each mother and father, and an extra 53,724 who had misplaced both their father (47,804) or mom (5,920).
There isn’t a knowledge on what number of parentless kids have additionally been wounded, however, at the same time as the primary part of a ceasefire deal to finish the lengthy conflict was agreed on Thursday, Gaza has the best charge of kid amputations of any fashionable battle.
On 13 August, a three-year-old woman, Wesam, was asleep together with her five-year-old brother, Zuheir, her pregnant mom, Nour, her father, Moatassem, and her grandparents, when the household home in Gaza Metropolis was bombed. Wesam was the one survivor, however sustained critical wounds to her leg and stomach, together with a lacerated liver and kidney, and extreme psychological trauma.
Unicef stated she was in “pressing want of medical evacuation overseas for superior remedy, notably to save lots of her left leg from the danger of amputation”.
Gaza residents have been advised that “cooperation, self-discipline, and responding to directions” is the most secure strategy to transfer ahead as assist comes into the area.
Al Jazeera has reported that Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace has issued a “nationwide attraction”, which asks the folks dwelling within the Gaza Strip to “make sure the success of the humanitarian restoration part of the ceasefire settlement”.
“We name upon our nice Palestinian folks to totally cooperate with the governmental and humanitarian businesses,” it stated.
It added: “We affirm that cooperation, self-discipline, and responding to directions issued by governmental and reduction businesses is the secure strategy to speed up and facilitate service efforts supplied to our folks, and to make sure the gradual and organised restoration of life, in a approach that achieves the curiosity of all and preserves the safety and stability of society.”
The message additionally acknowledged the “extent of the ache” of the Palestinian folks after months of bombardment, and says it subsequently asks the individuals who stay within the Strip to “cope with this stage with a spirit of nationwide and humanitarian accountability.”
At the least 17 Palestinians have been killed and 71 injured in Israeli assaults in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, based on Gaza’s well being ministry (whose figures the UN finds credible).
The overall demise toll has risen to 67,211 since 7 October 2023, the ministry stated.
This comes after it was introduced yesterday {that a} ceasefire and hostage launch deal was agreed upon between Hamas and Israel yesterday (9 October. The IDF says that as of noon as we speak (10 October), the ceasefire has come into impact.
Unicef requires all assist routes into Gaza to open, and warns of kid deaths
Unicef has known as for all assist routes into Gaza to open and warns that youngster deaths might spike if not.
“The scenario is essential. We danger seeing a large spike in youngster demise, not solely neonatal, but in addition infants, given their immune programs are extra compromised than ever earlier than,” stated spokesperson Ricardo Pires.
Vitamin assist is the primary precedence, based on Unicef, with 50,000 kids prone to acute malnutrition and in want of fast remedy.
Pires stated kids “haven’t been consuming correctly and lately in any respect for approach too lengthy”, and that is inflicting them well being issues which might have detrimental long-term impacts. “With kids, they should have the appropriate nutritional vitamins and the vitamins to develop and have the ability to address temperature modifications, or virus outbreaks,” he stated.
About 600 vans a day are reported to enter Gaza and ship assist, because the United Nations has introduced its plans to ship 170,000 metric tons of meals, medication and different humanitarian assist is able to enter Gaza. It’s now searching for a inexperienced mild from Israel to massively improve assist for greater than 2 million Palestinians in want.
Within the final a number of months, UN and its humanitarian companions have solely been in a position to ship 20% of the help wanted within the Gaza Strip. In addition to offering meals, shelter gear and medical provides, it hopes to revive Gaza’s water grid and enhance sanitation by putting in latrines in households, repairing sewage leaks and pumping stations, and shifting stable waste from residential areas
Unicef additionally stated it has evacuated two of 18 new child infants from a North Gaza hospital to be reunited with their mother and father within the south of the area.
“I hope that is simply an instance of what’s going to come after the ceasefire is absolutely applied,” Pires stated.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the didn’t hearken to those that stated it might not be attainable to convey the hostages dwelling. Whereas delivering an deal with to the general public on Friday, 10 October, he stated “the safety of Israel” is what guided his political selections.
“I believed that if we utilized heavy army strain, mixed with heavy diplomatic strain, we’d completely have the ability to return all of our hostages,” he stated, as reported by the Times of Israel.
He later added: “Meaning reaching the targets of the conflict, together with returning the hostages, eradicating the ballistic and nuclear risk from Iran that endangered our existence right here, and breaking the Iranian axis, of which Hamas is a central element.”
Elsewhere within the deal with, the prime minister additionally stated that the Israeli army is remaining in Gaza to place strain on Hamas till it disarms.
He additionally thanked his “huge buddy” US president Donald Trump, saying that diplomatic strain and army presence is the “highly effective mixture” that “will trigger Hamas to offer again all of our hostages, whereas the IDF stays deep contained in the Strip and holds all the important thing positions.”
Netanyahu thanked Trump “for his world management, and for his unceasing efforts to place collectively this plan to convey again our hostages.”
Trump, based on the Israeli prime minister, “proved his friendship to our folks, to our nation” – and was given reward together with the IDF and the family members of the Israeli hostages.
Palestinians start journey north after Israel says ceasefire has come into impact
Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza started heading north within the territory after the Israeli army introduced {that a} ceasefire had come into impact on Friday, based on AFP information company.
Listed here are a few of the pictures coming by to us on the wires:
Israel will reportedly enable 600 assist vans into Gaza each day, based on a report by Israel’s Military Radio. They may even let Palestinians who left the Gaza strip through the conflict to return dwelling by the Rafah crossing.
The 600 assist vans might be allowed to circulate from the south to the north of the Gaza Strip by way of Salah al-Din and al-Rashid streets, Al Jazeera reports. The vans can herald meals, medical gear, shelter provides, and gasoline – and might be distributed by a mix of United Nations, accredited worldwide organisations and the personal sector.
The radio report additionally stated that Gaza residents will have the ability to go to Egypt by the Rafah crossing, equally to what was allowed through the January 2025 settlement. Nonetheless, this motion is topic to the approval of Israel and underneath the supervision and inspection of the European Union mission.
Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 experiences that Donald Trump is predicted to land in Israel at round 9am on Monday, 13 October. The US president is because of arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, the place he might be welcomed with a proper ceremony.
Nonetheless, the go to is now going to be shorter than initially deliberate, on account of logistics of organising the journey at such a final minute – based on The Times of Israel.
After his arrival, Trump is predicted to go straight to the Knesset in Jerusalem to ship a speech earlier than the beginning of the Jewish vacation Simchat Torah – which begins on Monday night. As per Channel 12, if this timeline is correct, this implies the president won’t have time to cease by Hostages Sq. in Tel Aviv.
It was confirmed yesterday that Trump will not be visiting Gaza throughout his Center East journey.
