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"Hopeful feeling in the air": Hostages, prisoners released with Gaza peace deal's signing

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Publish Date
Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 8:04am
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while World leaders listen during a summit of European and Middle Eastern leaders on Gaza on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. President Trump is in Egypt to meet with European and Middle Eastern leaders in what’s being billed as an international peace summit, following the start of a US-brokered ceasefire deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks while World leaders listen during a summit of European and Middle Eastern leaders on Gaza on October 13, 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. President Trump is in Egypt to meet with European and Middle Eastern leaders in what’s being billed as an international peace summit, following the start of a US-brokered ceasefire deal to end the war in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

"Hopeful feeling in the air": Hostages, prisoners released with Gaza peace deal's signing

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 8:04am

The components of a Gaza ceasefire agreement seem to be falling into place.  

The heads of the US, Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar have signed off the deal at a summit of world leaders in Egypt. 

Hamas has released 20 living Israeli hostages and four of the 28 deceased in exchange for Israel freeing about two thousand Palestinians.  

CBS Radio's Steve Linde told Mike Hosking the fact the Trump administration's so firmly behind this deal is significant.  

He says for the first time, there's a hopeful feeling in the air, but the Middle East is a very volatile place and anything can spark it off again. 

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