Gaza Hostage Deal Marks First Step on Long Road to Peace

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  you After two years of fighting, Israel and Hamas agreed to release all hostages in Gaza,

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  getting President Trump closer to his goal of resolving the conflict.

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  While this is a major breakthrough for peace in Gaza,

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  we still have a long way to go to end this war.

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  Plus, behind closed doors, Republicans express fears that Trump's shut-down strategy could backfire.

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  And France's president looks for a way out of a fiscal hole that's turned into a political crisis.

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  It's Thursday, October 9th.

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  I'm Kate Bulevant for The Wall Street Journal.

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  And here is the AM edition of What's News,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  We begin with a breakthrough in the Middle East.

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  Israel and Hamas have agreed to a deal that would see all of the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip released.

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  There are 20 hostages believed to still be alive in Gaza.

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  Egyptian officials who mediated the talks said Hamas would let them go as soon as Sunday morning,

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  while President Trump told Fox News that they would probably be released on Monday.

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  Journal Deputy World Coverage Chief Mike Amon said that while the deal marks progress toward peace,

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  the hard part is still to come.

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  There are a lot of moving parts of this agreement, but this is the first step.

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  And to make it hold,

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  President Trump is going to have to both pressure Israel to not start the war again

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