Trump and Netanyahu to discuss Gaza peace plan
Newshour
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has expressed renewed optimism about reaching a deal to end the war in Gaza, ahead of talks on Monday with the Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a social media post, Mr Trump said there was a 'real chance for greatness in the Middle East'. He's subsequently said that he's received what he called a 'very good response' from Israel and Arab leaders to a new US proposal that he says is aimed not just at Gaza but at reaching a broader peace in the region.
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(Photo: Residents of Gaza City are still evacuating as the fighting intensifies. Credit: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.1 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:14.6 | This is Owen Bennett-Jones. |
| 0:16.9 | President Trump says he is close to a deal for Gaza. Something special is coming, he said, |
| 0:24.1 | and also we have a real chance of greatness in the Middle East. He hopes to clinch it in a meeting |
| 0:29.4 | with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday. There's growing talk of what this |
| 0:34.9 | plan consists of. J.D. Vance says says three elements, hostage releases, a ceasefire and humanitarian aid. |
| 0:43.4 | The Times of Israel has much more detail. It's reported on 21 finalized clauses. We'll get into that in a moment. |
| 0:50.7 | But first here is Prime Minister Netanyahu asked on Fox News this morning if he supports |
| 0:56.4 | President Trump's peace plan. Well, we're working on it. It's not been finalized yet, but we're |
| 1:01.6 | working with President Trump's team, actually as we speak, and I hope we can make it a go, |
| 1:08.4 | because we want to free our hostages. We want to get rid of Hamas rule and have them disarmed, Gaza demilitarized, |
| 1:15.5 | and a new future set up for Gazans and Israelis alike and for the whole region. |
| 1:20.4 | So what is the plan? |
| 1:22.2 | Jacob Magid is the U.S. Bureau Chief for the Times of Israel. |
| 1:25.7 | joins us live from Washington now. |
| 1:27.4 | A brilliant story. Congratulations. You've got 21 clauses here. Tell us about the highlights. |
| 1:34.0 | Thank you. So I would say there's certain elements that are quite similar to previous proposals that have been crafted over the past few months by different stakeholders. |
| 1:44.8 | They include, of course, the immediate release of all 48 remaining hostages and a gradual |
| 1:51.3 | withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, a release as well of over a thousand Palestinian security |
| 1:59.3 | prisoners. |
| 2:00.5 | But what I thought was interesting about this |
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