A deal has been reached for the first phase of an agreement to end Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.

“I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” said Trump in a post on Truth Social. “This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.”

“All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!” he added.

Negotiators for Israel and the terror group Hamas have huddled in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for days with mediators to hammer out an agreement on the first phase of the U.S.-backed framework for peace in Gaza and a pathway to a Palestinian state.

The first phase of the deal as presented by Trump last week involve a swap of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel for hostages held by the terror group Hamas. The framework presented by Trump had Hamas releasing all 48 hostages still held in Gaza, living and dead, within 72 hours in exchange for hundreds of prisoners from Israel.

Negotiations reportedly stuck on the hostage release. Only 20 hostages are believed to be alive. Of the dead, Israeli officials were concerned that Hamas may not know where all the bodies are, much less be able to retrieve them.

🚨Israeli officials believe the deal will be reached within 24-36 hours.

Hamas has provided information on the living hostages — 20 in total.

Hamas is searching for all the bodies of the dead hostages, though it’s far from guaranteed that they’ll all be found.

Israel is…

— Amit Segal (@AmitSegal) October 8, 2025

Once hostages are secure, the Israeli military is expected to draw back to the “yellow line,” as the Trump plan identified it, leaving the heart of Gaza.

As the two sides have neared an agreement, diplomats converged on the sea-side city of Sharm el-Sheikh this week.

Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law and former Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner were expected to head to Egyt earlier this week. Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani was set to join negotiators in person in Egypt on Wednesday, as well as Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, according to The New York Times.

President Donald Trump hosted a roundtable discussion at the White House with journalists impacted by violence from Antifa, a far-left group recently designated as a domestic terrorist organization by the president.

The decentralized group is most known for instigating violence and chaos at major protests, including anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, which led the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard to the city. Currently, that order is blocked by United States District Judge Karin J. Immergut at the time of this writing.

“The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade,” Trump said on Wednesday. “These are agitators, anarchists, and they’re paid,” he later added.

Conservative journalists and personalities, including Andy Ngo, Nick Sortor, Katie Daviscourt, Julio Rosas, Brandi Kruse, Savanah Hernandez, and Jack Posobiec, joined the roundtable with Trump administration officials.

“The Biden administration let them commit these crimes with total impunity for years,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said, adding that “weak Democrats have turned a blind eye to their actions.”

Bondi vowed to “destroy the entire organization from top to bottom,” saying they will use a similar approach to how they crack down on drug cartels.

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FBI Director Kash Patel said that “they are harming everyday citizens in every single one of our communities.”

“We will arrest every single one of them,” Patel insisted, adding that “the American people deserve law and order.”

Kruse, a Seattle-based reporter, said that one of the most significant issues the president addressed was “acknowledging that Antifa is a real thing.”

“Once you take the mask off, they’re nothing,” Kruse said, later asking for a “full court press to dismantle Antifa once and for all.” She added that the investigators should look into the movement of potential criminals between Portland and Seattle.

Ngo described numerous times where he was attacked by Antifa activists, including when he was severely choked, noting how the group is “decentralized, autonomous, and they operate on deception.”

“I think the DOJ could look at federal conspiracy charges,” he added.

Rosas said that “the American people deserve to know what’s happening in these situations.”

“It’s a long time coming,” Daviscourt said regarding the terrorist group designation, saying that Antifa “believes that violence is justified by any means necessary.” Daviscourt recently suffered a black eye as a result of an assault while covering the group.

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said there are “undercover” efforts underway in the Lone Star State to take down “leftist terror cells.”

“Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” Paxton said in a news release.

“The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming,” the attorney general concluded.