Washington – President Donald Trump said he is giving Hamas until 6 pm on Sunday to accept the proposal of Alto El Fuego that his administration offered this week to end the war in Gaza.
“If this last opportunity agreement is not reached, all hell, as no one has seen before, will explode against Hamas,” Trump wrote on Friday in a long publication about Truth Social.
Trump said earlier this week that he would give Hamas three to four days to respond to the plan, which Israel has supported. Qatar, who had been helping to facilitate peace efforts, said he was delivered to a Hamas delegation on Monday night by Qatar and Egyptian officials.
The president claimed that 25,000 Hamas members were killed after the terrorist attack of October 7, October 2023, Militant. He also suggested that “he would give the word” about whether he would decimate the group even more, although the US forces are not in Gaza.
“The majority of the rest are surrounded and trapped militarily, just waiting for the word, ‘go’, so that their lives are quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know where and who you are, and you will be hunted and killed. I am asking that all innocent Palestinians leave this area of great future death on a safer part of Gaza,” he said.
But then he said that Hamas would be given “one last chance!”
“This agreement also saves the life of all the remaining fighters of Hamas!” He wrote. “The details of the document are known to the world, and it is excellent for everyone! We will have peace in the Middle East in one way or another. Violence and bloodshed will stop. Free the hostages, all of them, including the bodies of which they are dead, now!”
Trump announced the peace proposal of 20 points on Monday during the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. The key parts of the plan include the simultaneous release of the 48 living and dead hostages held in Gaza, a requirement for Hamas to debite their weapons, a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli troops of the territory, an influx of humanitarian aid and the installation of a civil government authority for Palestinians. A large number of nations in the region, including Qatar, Egypt and Türkiye, also offered support for the proposal.
In statements to the press body with Trump on Monday, Netanyahu warned that if Hamas rejects the plan or accepts it and does not follow his promises, “then Israel will end the work for itself.”
“This can be done easily, or it can be done in the difficult way, but it will be done,” said Netanyahu. “We prefer the easy way, but it must be done.”
The president said that if Hamas does not agree with the agreement, Israel would have “my full support to finish the work of destroying the threat of Hamas, but I hope we will have an agreement for peace.”
Trump said of Hamas: “They are the only ones left. Everyone else has accepted it, but I have the feeling that we are going to have a positive response.”
