WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump mentioned he’s giving Hamas till 6 p.m. Sunday to simply accept the ceasefire proposal his administration supplied this week to finish the struggle in Gaza.
“If this LAST CHANCE settlement isn’t reached, all HELL, like nobody has ever seen earlier than, will get away in opposition to Hamas,” Trump wrote Friday in a prolonged submit on Reality Social.
Trump mentioned earlier this week that he would give Hamas three to 4 days to answer the plan, which Israel has backed. Qatar, which had been serving to facilitate peace efforts, mentioned it was delivered to a Hamas delegation on Monday night by Qatari and Egyptian officers.
The president claimed 25,000 members of Hamas have been killed following the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist assault on Israel. He additionally urged that he would “give the phrase” on whether or not to additional decimate the group, although U.S. forces will not be in Gaza.
“Many of the relaxation are surrounded and MILITARILY TRAPPED, simply ready for me to provide the phrase, ‘GO,’ for his or her lives to be shortly extinguished. As for the remaining, we all know the place and who you might be, and you may be hunted down, and killed. I’m asking that each one harmless Palestinians instantly go away this space of doubtless nice future demise for safer elements of Gaza,” he mentioned.
However then he mentioned that Hamas can be given “one final likelihood!”
“THIS DEAL ALSO SPARES THE LIVES OF ALL REMAINING HAMAS FIGHTERS!” he wrote. “The main points of the doc are recognized to the WORLD, and it’s a nice one for ALL! We may have PEACE within the Center East by hook or by crook. The violence and bloodshed will cease. RELEASES THE HOSTAGES, ALL OF THEM, INCLUDING THE BODIES OF THOSE THAT ARE DEAD, NOW!”
Trump unveiled the 20-point peace proposal on Monday throughout Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s go to to the White Home. The plan’s key elements embody the simultaneous launch of all 48 residing and useless hostages held in Gaza, a requirement for Hamas to decommission their weapons, a phased withdrawal of Israeli troops from the territory, an inflow of humanitarian help and the set up of a civilian governing authority for Palestinians. A host of countries within the area, together with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, additionally supplied help for the proposal.
Talking to the press corps with Trump on Monday, Netanyahu warned that if Hamas rejects the plan or accepts it and would not observe by way of on its guarantees, “then Israel will end the job by itself.”
“This may be carried out the simple approach, or it may be carried out the exhausting approach, however it is going to be carried out,” Netanyahu mentioned. “We favor the simple approach, nevertheless it must be carried out.”
The president mentioned that if Hamas doesn’t comply with the deal, Israel would have “my full backing to complete the job of destroying the specter of Hamas, however I hope that we’re going to have a deal for peace.”
Trump mentioned of Hamas, “They’re the one one left. Everybody else has accepted it, however I’ve a sense that we’re going to have a optimistic reply.”
