Trump Gives Hamas Sunday Deadline To Accept Gaza Peace Plan

United States President Donald Trump has issued Hamas a stark ultimatum: judge a US-brokered bid woody for Gaza by Sunday evening oregon look what helium described arsenic “all hell.”

In a fiery station connected Truth Social connected Friday, Trump declared, “If this LAST CHANCE statement is not reached, each HELL, similar nary 1 has ever seen before, volition interruption retired against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.”

The deadline of 18:00 Washington clip (22:00 GMT) connected Sunday follows Trump’s earlier informing connected Tuesday that Hamas had “three to 4 days” to respond to the plan.

The 20-point plan, unveiled Monday astatine the White House alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls for: an contiguous extremity to fighting, the merchandise wrong 72 hours of 20 surviving Israeli hostages believed to beryllium held by Hamas, arsenic good arsenic the remains of others thought dormant and the merchandise of hundreds of detained Palestinians successful exchange.

Others see the humanitarian assistance to travel into Gaza erstwhile some sides hold and a impermanent Gaza medication led by a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” overseen by an planetary assemblage called the Board of Peace — headed by Trump himself.

The statement besides states that Hamas volition person nary relation successful Gaza’s governance and leaves unfastened the anticipation of a aboriginal Palestinian state.

However, divisions wrong Hamas endanger the plan’s prospects. Mediators person reportedly contacted the caput of the group’s subject helping successful Gaza, who has rejected the proposal. While immoderate of Hamas’s governmental leaders successful Qatar are said to beryllium unfastened to the woody with adjustments, their power is constricted arsenic they bash not power the hostages.

Another sticking constituent is the request for Hamas to merchandise each hostages wrong the archetypal 72 hours of a ceasefire — a determination galore successful the radical presumption arsenic giving distant their lone bargaining chip.

According to US quality assessments, 48 hostages stay successful Gaza, but lone astir 20 are believed to beryllium alive.

While the program hints astatine a way toward Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu rapidly walked backmost that interpretation, reiterating his longstanding opposition.

“It’s not written successful the agreement. We said we would powerfully reason a Palestinian state,” helium said successful a video statement.
Arab and Turkish mediators are pressing Hamas to judge the proposal, portion a conjugation of overseas ministers from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan issued a associated connection expressing readiness to enactment with Washington to finalize and instrumentality the plan.

They emphasized that the woody should pave the mode for a “two-state solution, nether which Gaza is afloat integrated with the West Bank successful a Palestinian state.”

The Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs parts of the occupied West Bank, praised Trump’s efforts, calling them “sincere and determined.”

Trump has warned that rejection volition bring devastating consequences, “Israel would person US backing to decorativeness the occupation of destroying the menace of Hamas,” helium said.
Netanyahu echoed this resolve, insisting Israel “will decorativeness the job” if Hamas fails to comply.

The ultimatum comes astir 2 years into Israel’s subject run successful Gaza, launched successful effect to Hamas’s 7 October 2023 onslaught connected confederate Israel, which killed astir 1,200 radical and saw 251 others taken hostage.

Since then, astatine slightest 66,288 Palestinians person been killed successful Israeli strikes, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry.