Trump offers Hamas Sunday deadline to simply accept Gaza peace plan

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump has given Hamas a deadline to simply accept a US peace plan for Gaza or face "all hell".

Trump wrote on his Fact Social platform on Friday that an settlement have to be reached by 18:00 Washington time (22:00 GMT) on Sunday.

The plan proposes a direct finish to preventing and the discharge inside 72 hours of 20 dwelling Israeli hostages held by Hamas - in addition to the stays of hostages considered useless - in change for lots of of detained Gazans.

Arab and Turkish mediators are understood to be urgent Hamas for a constructive response to the proposal, however a senior Hamas determine has stated the armed group is more likely to reject it.

"If this LAST CHANCE settlement just isn't reached, all HELL, like nobody has ever seen earlier than, will get away towards Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER," Trump wrote within the Fact Social publish.

Mediators have made contact with the pinnacle of Hamas's navy wing in Gaza, who has indicated he doesn't comply with the brand new US ceasefire plan, the BBC understands.

It's thought that a few of Hamas's political management in Qatar are open to accepting it with changes - however have discovered their affect restricted as they don't have management of the hostages held by the group.

One other stumbling block for some in Hamas is that the plan requires them handy over the entire hostages over the primary 72 hours of the ceasefire - freely giving their solely bargaining chip.

There are believed to be 48 hostages nonetheless being held within the Palestinian territory by the armed group, solely 20 of whom are considered alive.

The Israeli navy launched a marketing campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, through which about 1,200 individuals had been killed and 251 others had been taken hostage.

No less than 66,288 individuals have been killed in Israeli assaults in Gaza since then, in accordance with the territory's Hamas-run well being ministry.