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Welcome to the News Hour. Tonight, President Trump is demanding that Israel end the war in Gaza,

a short time after Hamas announced it had agreed to Mr. Trump's proposal to release all Israeli

hostages held in Gaza.

But the militant group responsible for the deadly October 7th attacks against Israel nearly two years ago did not agree to all of the president's framework.

Our Nick Schifrin is here tracking all of this.

So Nick, what is President Trump demanding tonight?

Well, as you said, Jeff, just in the last hour,

the President of the United States made a dramatic demand of Israel on as you said, Jeff, just in the last hour, the President of United

States made a dramatic demand of Israel on true social writing, quote, Israel must immediately

stop the bombing of Gaza so that we can get the hostages out safely and quickly. That is the first

time that either President Biden or President Trump publicly demanded that Israel stopped the war since

October the 7th. And as you said, the president's demand comes after Hamas' reply to the

framework that President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released from the White

House earlier this week. So let's take a look at how Hamas replied to that. First, Hamas's

first point, quote,

the movement announces the agreement to release all living and dead hostages, according to the

exchange formula contained in President Trump's proposal. So as a reminder, that framework is to release

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