Hamas has just announced that they will release all of the remaining Israeli hostages, both living and dead.

I've got the statement right here in front of me. I'm going to read it to you. We just got this in.

In order to achieve a cessation of hostilities and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,

the movement announces its agreement to release all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead,

according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump's proposal, provided the field conditions for the exchanger met.

In this context, the movement affirms its readiness to immediately enter into negotiations through the mediators to discuss the details of this agreement.

So again, that is Hamas saying that it will now release all of the Israelis

that remain in captivity, both living and dead. That is part and parcel to the proposal that

President Trump had laid out in order to create the conditions for a ceasefire in this long-standing

conflict. We are now about a week away from the anniversary of October 7th.

The president had given Hamas the deadline of Sunday at 6 p.m. Washington time. Clearly this is coming in far before that deadline.

On the surface at first, certainly it looks like a very promising development.

They're saying that they welcome Trump's peace plan that they want to

find a way to basically meet its conditions. Now, the devil is going to be in the detail. It says

it's going to negotiate details. And we've seen moments before where it looked like there were

moments of progress and then the details, you know, bologs things up. For instance, they do say that

they want to agree to surrender control of Gaza to a Palestinian independent body. Well, that's not

exactly what President Trump proposed. He proposed a body that he would actually chair with other

notable figures like Tony Blair, the former British prime minister.

So it's not quite clear whether Hamas is agreeing to what President Trump stipulated on that

part of the plan or whether there have some other ideas in mind and whether that could be

negotiated.

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