President Donald Trump, throughout a whirlwind 12 hours in the Middle East on Monday, celebrated a “new daybreak” for the area as the primary part of a ceasefire deal he helped dealer between Israel and Hamas received underway.
However as he returned to Washington, Trump confronted robust questions on what comes subsequent.
One key difficulty on guaranteeing a long-lasting peace is the disarmament of Hamas, as known as for in Trump’s 20-point peace plan however not explicitly dealt with within the preliminary part of the settlement.
ABC Information White Home Correspondent Karen Travers requested Trump on the White Home on Tuesday how lengthy it will take Hamas to take action and if he might assure it will occur.
“Effectively, they’re going to disarm, and since they stated they had been going to disarm. And if they do not disarm, we are going to disarm them,” Trump stated.
President Donald Trump speaks throughout a gathering with President of Argentina Javier Milei within the Cupboard Room on the White Home, October 14, 2025 in Washington.
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“How will you do this?” ABC’s Travers requested.
“I haven’t got to clarify that to you, but when they do not disarm, we are going to disarm them. They know I am not enjoying video games, okay. … And if they do not disarm, we are going to disarm them, and it will occur shortly and maybe violently. However they’ll disarm. Do you perceive me?” Trump stated.
Pressed on what the deadline is for Hamas to disarm, Trump stated “fairly shortly.”
“An inexpensive time frame,” Trump stated.
Hamas gunmen on pickup vans escort buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners as they’re greeted following their launch from Israeli jails below a cease-fire settlement between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2025.
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The president, speaking to reporters on Air Power One on his means residence in a single day, stated his focus now was on rebuilding Gaza, which has been demolished by two years of struggle. The United Nations now says the reconstruction of the enclave might value upwards of $70 billion.
However Trump did not elaborate on a particular imaginative and prescient, as an alternative saying thornier problems with Palestinian statehood and governing of the Gaza Strip could be labored out later.
“Effectively, we’re gonna must see,” Trump stated on the flight. “I imply, lots of people just like the one-state answer. Some folks just like the two-state options. We’ll must see.”
On learn how to bridge that hole, the president stated sooner or later he would resolve “what I believe is correct” in coordination with different international locations.
President Donald Trump speaks with the press on board Air Power One in Mildenhall, Suffolk, October 14, 2025.
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Requested to remark additional on the second part of his peace plan and the standing of negotiations, Trump solely stated there was “a variety of energy” within the group of world leaders that gathered in Egypt on Monday for talks on Gaza’s future.
“These are, , actually significantly wealthy international locations, and so they can deal with it,” Trump stated.
Trump was surrounded by leaders and representatives of greater than 20 international locations in Sharm El-Sheikh, the place he and three mediators concerned within the Israel-Hamas negotiations signed a doc backing his peace plan.
Trump touted the memorandum as “historic” however it appeared largely symbolic, because it contained no specifics on what comes subsequent apart from broad commitments from the U.S., Egypt, Turkey and Qatar to “pursue a complete imaginative and prescient of peace, safety, and shared prosperity within the area, grounded within the rules of mutual respect and shared future.”
Not current in Egypt and never signing the doc was Israel and Hamas.
President Donald Trump waits to greet leaders throughout a summit to help ending the greater than two-year Israel-Hamas struggle in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal, Oct. 13, 2025, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
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Emotional scenes performed out in Israel and Gaza on Monday because the remaining residing 20 Israeli hostages had been reunited with their families and Palestinian prisoners were freed and returned to Gaza — a significant diplomatic accomplishment for Trump after months of tense negotiations.
Although in an indication of the fragility of the ceasefire settlement, Israel on Monday accused Hamas of a “blatant violation” when it did not instantly return all of the stays of 4 deceased hostages. The U.N. then stated Israeli authorities introduced it will reduce in half the variety of vans allowed to hold help into Gaza as a response.
Requested Tuesday on the White Home if Hamas deal will maintain up its finish of the deal, President Trump responded: “We’ll discover out.”
Trump later stated Hamas “misrepresented” the variety of lifeless hostages, calling it a “very robust topic.”
“I need them again. That is what they stated. I need them again,” he stated of the our bodies of the deceased hostages.
