Trump says Hamas can release 20 hostages “a little early” under a deal

President Donald Trump He said on Sunday that Hamas could release the 20 hostages, which holds “a little earlier.”

Trump talks with reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to the Middle East, where he was asked about the most native in the hostages and when they could be released.

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US President Donald Trump told Air Force Reporters on October 12, 2025, that the 20 hostages held by Hamas could be released a little earlier. (Chip somodevil/ghetto images)

“So they have hostages – I understand all 20 – and we can bring them out a little earlier,” Trump said. “Getting them was incredible, in fact, because we were involved and they were in places you didn’t want to know about.”

The president’s comments come when Hamas is facing a deadline for the return of all other hostages to Israel, after a peaceful deal that ended the two-year war on Israel-Hamas.

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Thehe peace agreementIt was mediated by President Trump, provoked celebrations in a region struck by violence after Hamas’s terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023.