{"id":140363,"date":"2025-10-09T07:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140363"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:30:24","slug":"nyt-israel-and-hamas-on-thursday-edged-closer-to-ending-their-devastating-two-year-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140363","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Israel and Hamas on Thursday edged closer to ending their devastating two-year war\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israel and Hamas on Thursday edged closer to ending their devastating two-year war, agreeing on the initial terms of a deal that could pave the way to an imminent cease-fire and bringing relief to the families of Israeli hostages and to two million Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides were preparing for an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners this weekend after reaching an agreement overnight, the culmination of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/10\/09\/world\/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire#timeline\">sustained pressure<\/a>&nbsp;from President Trump and Arab mediators. Mr. Trump suggested that he would travel to the region over the weekend, and Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said he had invited him to address Israel\u2019s Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though details were scarce, and the text of the agreement had not been made public, it promised at least a cease-fire if not a permanent end to a conflict that has set off a humanitarian catastrophe and widespread hunger in Gaza, battered Hamas militarily and left Israel exhausted and isolated internationally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/10\/09\/world\/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire\/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israel-Hamas ceasefire | Israel, Hamas agree to \u2018first phase\u2019 of peace plan, hostage-release, Trump says<br>Follow live updates here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fuAdxyAumN\">https:\/\/t.co\/fuAdxyAumN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Hindu (@the_hindu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_hindu\/status\/1976105365696618725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel and Hamas on Thursday edged closer to ending their devastating two-year war, agreeing on the initial terms of a deal that could pave the way to an imminent cease-fire and bringing relief to the families of Israeli hostages and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140363\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,565,106,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-israel","category-military-armed-forces","category-the-palestinianisraeli-struggle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140367,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140363\/revisions\/140367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}