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- Israel-Gaza live updates: 'We'll disarm them,' Trump says of Hamas</p>
<p>KEVIN SHALVEY, JON HAWORTH, EMILY SHAPIRO and NADINE EL-BAWABOctober 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM</p>
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<p>President Donald Trump addressed the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on Monday before traveling to Egypt for a peace summit to mark the first steps of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.</p>
<p>The final 20 remaining living hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, were returned to Israel on Monday as part of an exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, officials said.</p>
<p>Some Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has for two years waged a brutal and systematic war against Hamas, are returning home and beginning to reckon with the destruction caused by the conflict.</p>
<p>Latest Developments</p>
<p>Oct 14, 4:06 PM4 more hostage bodies in Israeli custody</p>
<p>The remains of four more hostages have been handed over to Israel.</p>
<p>Four coffins of deceased hostages, escorted by Israeli forces, crossed the border into Israel, headed to the National Institute for Forensic Medicine, where officials will carry out identification procedures.There are still believed to be 20 hostage bodies remaining in Gaza.</p>
<p>Oct 14, 3:27 PMAid groups able to move freely in Gaza after IDF withdrawal, UN says</p>
<p>The United Nations and other aid organizations "have been able to move more freely across parts of Gaza from which Israeli forces have withdrawn," since the first phase of the ceasefire deal went into effect, U.N. Deputy spokesperson for the Secretary General Farhan Haq said at a press briefing at U.N. headquarters in New York Tuesday. "This improved access has allowed partners to scale up the response to the most urgent needs," Haq said. World Health Organization teams reached Al Ahli Hospital with eight trucks of medical supplies on Monday, and their teams reached the European Hospital in Khan Younis to transfer critical medications and intensive care unit equipment to Nasser Hospital, Haq said. "The U.N. and our humanitarian partners have also installed a solar panel for a desalination unit in Deir al Balah, as well as new telecommunications hardware to improve connectivity for affected people and humanitarian operations," Haq said.</p>
<p>Oct 14, 2:49 PMRed Cross on their way to retrieve more hostage bodies</p>
<p>Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross are on their way to retrieve the remains of several hostages held by Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Israel Defense Forces. It is unclear how many remains will be handed over.</p>
<p>Oct 14, 2:45 PM'We'll disarm them,' Trump says of Hamas</p>
<p>Asked about how long it would take Hamas to disarm and if it can be guaranteed the group will do so, President Donald Trump said they would do so by force if necessary.</p>
<p>"If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm not playing games. Now we did something monumental. We got the hostages back. That was the first thing we had to do," Trump said in response to a question from ABC News' Karen Travers at the White House on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Ramadan Abed/Reuters - PHOTO: Palestinian militants stand guard on the day that hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, are handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.</p>
<p>"I spoke to Hamas and I said, you're going to disarm, right? Yes sir, we're going to disarm. That's what they told me. They will disarm or we will disarm them," Trump said.</p>
<p>Oct 14, 1:07 PM3rd and 4th hostage remains returned to Israel have been identified</p>
<p>Two more hostages whose bodies was returned to Israel on Monday have been identified. Yossi Sharabi and Daniel Peretz are the third and fourth remains to be ID'd, Kibbuz Be'eri and the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in statements Tuesday.</p>
<p>Sharabi was "kidnapped alive," on Oct. 7 and "murdered in captivity," Kibbutz Be'eri said in a release announcing the identification.</p>
<p>Courtesy of Bring Them Home Now via Reuters - PHOTO: Yossi Sharabi, an Israeli hostage who was kidnapped in the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, is pictured in this undated handout photo.</p>
<p>"We miss our Yossi so deeply. He was a wonderful partner and a perfect father to Yuval, Ophir, and Oren. He was a kind-hearted man who always looked for ways to do good," Nira Sharabi, his wife, said in the statements. "Now we can finally bring closure to the nightmare that began over two years ago and give Yossi the dignified and loving burial he deserves in the soil of Kibbutz Be'eri."</p>
<p>Courtesy of Bring Them Home Now via Reuters - PHOTO: Daniel Peretz, an Israeli hostage who was kidnapped in the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, is pictured in this undated handout photo.</p>
<p>Peretz, 22, was an Israel Defense Forces tank commander. He was stationed at Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 7, 2023. Peretz was wounded and kidnapped on Oct. 7, and after 163 days in captivity, he was declared a fallen IDF soldier, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters said.</p>
<p>All four deceased hostages whose bodies were returned to Israel on Monday have now been identified.-ABC News' Dana Savir, Jordana Miller and Anna Burd</p>
<p>Oct 14, 1:07 PM45 bodies returned to Gaza by the Red Cross</p>
<p>Forty-five bodies of Palestinians who were held by Israel for two years were returned to Gaza by the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said Tuesday. The bodies were handed over to the Gaza Ministry of Health at Nasser Medical Complex. The Red Cross said they will provide names of the bodies at a later time, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. -ABC News' Sami Zyara</p>
<p>Oct 14, 11:29 AMIsraeli officials in contact with mediators, ICRC about return of remaining deceased hostages</p>
<p>Israeli officials are in conversation with the mediators and the International Committee of the Red Cross about the return of the rest of the deceased hostages, a senior Israeli official told ABC News on Tuesday. "The issue is also being addressed with other international parties and continues in our actions (the negotiating team) with the mediators, even at these very hours," Israeli government liaison to hostage families Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch said in a statement. "I am in constant contact with our representatives in the talks and have been on the details, the issue is at the center of the agenda," Hirsch said in the statement. The bodies of four deceased hostages were returned to Israel on Monday; according to the terms of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, the bodies of all 28 deceased hostages were supposed to be returned to Israel. Hostage families sent a letter to U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff urging him to "pull out every stop and leave no stone unturned in demanding that Hamas fulfill their end of the agreement and bring all the remaining hostages home." -ABC News' Jordana Miller and Anna Burd</p>
<p>Oct 14, 11:17 AM1,808 Palestinian detainees, 250 Palestinian prisoners released</p>
<p>The International Committee of the Red Cross has provided an number of Palestinians who were released from Israel on Monday as part of the phase one ceasefire deal. A total of 1,968 Palestinians were released: that includes 250 Palestinian prisoners, as well as 1,808 Palestinian detainees who were arrested after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel but were not involved in the Oct. 7 attack, the ICRC said.</p>
<p>Mahmoud Issa/Reuters - PHOTO: Freed Palestinian prisoners look out of a bus after they were released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.</p>
<p>Ammar Awad/Reuters - PHOTO: A freed Palestinian prisoner is greeted after he was released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 13, 2025.</p>
<p>-ABC News' Ellie Kaufman</p>
<p>Oct 14, 6:43 AMIran condemns Trump address, accusing him of 'false claims' about Tehran nuclear program</p>
<p>Iranian officials on Tuesday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of "repeating false claims" about the goals of Tehran's nuclear program, which was struck in June by Israel with the help of the United States.Trump on Monday touted those strikes, telling Israeli lawmakers in Jerusalem that "many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this earth." He said that the attack "stopped the number one state sponsor of terror from obtaining the world's most dangerous weapons."The Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement said Tehran condemned those statements. The ministry described Trump's statement as an effort "to justify the joint crimes" by Israel and the United States.</p>
<p>Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi addresses foreign ambassadors to Iran, in Tehran on Oct. 5, 2025.</p>
<p>"Boasting about and admitting to such crimes only increases the burden of responsibility on the US and reveals the depth of hostility among American policymakers toward the great people of Iran," the ministry said in its statement, which was posted on social media.</p>
<p>How much of a role did Trump play in latest Israel-Hamas deal?: ANALYSIS</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday thanked Trump for withdrawing from a former nuclear deal with Iran. He also thanked Trump for U.S. help with Israel's attack on Iran.</p>
<p>Saul Loeb/POOL/AFP via Getty Images - PHOTO: President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>"Iran's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program with your enormous help, Mr. President, rolled back," Netanyahu said during his address at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.Trump on Monday also called for Iran to come to recognize Israel's right to exist.Iran on Tuesday said those statements, in which Trump called for dialogue in the region, were "contradictory" to U.S. actions in the region.-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian and Kevin Shalvey</p>
<p>Oct 14, 6:19 AM5 Palestinians shot and killed in Gaza City, IDF says</p>
<p>The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.The IDF said that "several suspects were identified crossing the yellow line and approaching IDF troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip, which constitutes a violation of the agreement."The five approached forces in Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya neighborhood, the IDF said."After multiple attempts to distance them, the suspects refused to comply, prompting troops to open fire to remove the threat," the IDF said on social media.A Palestinian Civil Defence spokesperson denied the IDF's claim, telling ABC News that the five people were killed within the safe-zone yellow area.-ABC News' Joe Simonetti</p>
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