2025-10-06
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President Trump has sent his top Middle East negotiator and his son-in-law to Cairo to finalize a hostage deal that could possibly end the two-year war in Gaza.
In a stunning diplomatic breakthrough on Friday, Hamas accepted, at least in partial terms,
Donald Trump's peace plan, and Trump has been embracing it as a victory.
Everybody was unified in wanting this war to end and seeing peace in the Middle East.
And we're very close to achieving that.
Thank you all."
All weekend, the American president kept up the momentum, the pressure, and the optimism.
It's a great deal for Israel.
It's a great deal for the entire Arab world, Muslim world, and world.
So we're very happy about that.
From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid, and today on The Global Story, my colleague Tom Bateman.
on how President Trump reached a breakthrough with Israel and Hamas,
and whether his approach to deal-making could actually pay off.
In trying to understand this story, I thought my colleague here in DC,
Tom Bateman, would be the ideal person to call up.
His current job is covering the Trump administration's foreign policy and diplomacy.
But before that, he was in fact the BBC's Middle East correspondent.
He was based out of Jerusalem from 2017 to 2024.
Well, thank you so much for taking the time.