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US Announces Phase Two of Trump's Gaza Peace Plan

U.S.US Announces Phase Two of Trump's Gaza Peace Plan

Is Phase Two a viable framework for demilitarization and reconstruction, a cover for continued Israeli violations and displacement, or a naïve plan that assumes Hamas will disarm?
US Announces Phase Two of Trump's Gaza Peace Plan
Above: U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff speaks at a press conference in Kiryat Gat, Israel, on Oct. 21, 2025. Image credit: Nathan Howard/Pool/Getty Images

The Spin

Trump's decisive leadership has delivered historic results in Gaza, successfully maintaining the ceasefire, returning all living hostages and 27 deceased hostages while providing unprecedented humanitarian aid. Phase Two now launches a technocratic Palestinian administration to demilitarize Gaza and begin reconstruction, with Egypt, Turkey and Qatar's indispensable mediation creating a genuine path toward stability and peace.

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Phase Two cannot move forward while even one hostage remains behind. Advancing now abandons the last real leverage to bring Ran Gvili home and betrays the families promised he would not be left behind. Diplomacy that trades urgency for process risks turning captivity into permanent disappearance. No reconstruction or transition is legitimate until the final hostage returns.



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