President Donald Trump pushed forward with the October 2025 hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas despite Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s belief that the terrorist organization had effectively rejected the American proposal, according to new details revealed Tuesday evening by Kan News, marking one year since the agreement that secured the return of the remaining hostages from Gaza.

The report describes how Trump repeatedly treated disputed developments in the negotiations as breakthroughs, including publicly announcing that an agreement had been reached before Israeli negotiators believed the final outstanding issues had been resolved.

According to an individual familiar with the negotiations, the first major disagreement emerged after Hamas submitted its response to Trump’s 20-point peace proposal.

Netanyahu reportedly examined the terrorist organization’s response and concluded that it amounted to a rejection of the American initiative. During private discussions, the prime minister declared that “there is nothing to talk about,” indicating that he believed Hamas had failed to accept the conditions necessary for an agreement.

Trump, however, adopted a dramatically different interpretation. Rather than treating the Hamas response as a refusal, the president publicly characterized it as an acceptance of his plan, effectively keeping the diplomatic process moving despite Netanyahu’s reservations.

That decision proved significant because it prevented the negotiations from collapsing over the initial response and placed additional pressure on the Israeli government to continue pursuing an agreement.

A second revealing incident reportedly occurred during the negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in October 2025, when senior representatives of the parties were still working through unresolved details.

Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, arrived at the talks and arranged for the president to address the participants by telephone.

According to a source who attended the meeting, Trump congratulated those involved, telling them “well done” for reaching an agreement.

The problem, according to the account, was that the negotiations had not yet concluded and the agreement had not been formally signed.

A senior Israeli official attempted to correct the president’s impression, explaining that significant work remained before the parties could finalize the arrangement.

“Wait, we still have work to do,” the official reportedly told Trump.

Nevertheless, Trump proceeded to issue a public announcement declaring that an agreement had been secured, even as negotiators continued working on the remaining details.

The agreement took effect in October 2025, culminating in the return of the remaining 20 living hostages on October 13. The arrangement also provided for the return of the remains of 28 deceased hostages, bringing the total number covered by the agreement to 48, alongside an Israeli military withdrawal to an agreed line in Gaza.

In his announcement on Truth Social, Trump declared that Israel and Hamas had accepted the first phase of his peace initiative, including the release of the hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli forces to designated positions.

The agreement brought an end to the major fighting that had followed the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023, and paved the way for Trump’s visit to Israel and the international peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 13, 2025.

A year later, however, significant portions of the broader American peace initiative remain unresolved. Disagreements persist over the disarmament of Hamas, the withdrawal of Israeli troops from additional areas of Gaza, and the establishment of a postwar governing authority.

Israel has insisted that Hamas must surrender its weapons before further Israeli withdrawals can take place, while Hamas has demanded that Israel fulfill additional ceasefire commitments before it agrees to relinquish its military capabilities.

The anniversary was also marked Tuesday by the US State Department, which credited Trump’s diplomatic intervention with securing the return of all the hostages and establishing the foundations for a longer-term arrangement in Gaza.

In its anniversary statement, the department pointed to the establishment of the Board of Peace, the creation of a Palestinian technocratic administration, and plans for Gaza’s reconstruction, while acknowledging that implementation of the broader peace initiative remains a difficult, multiyear undertaking.

{Matzav.com}