Trump Sets Weekend Time Limit for the Militant Group to Accept Gazan Peace Plan

US President Donald Trump has issued a deadline to the Hamas organization, requiring them to accept a American ceasefire agreement for the Gaza region otherwise risk severe actions.

Via a statement on his online platform on Friday, Trump stated that an understanding must be reached by 18:00 Washington time (10 PM GMT) on the coming Sunday.

The suggested agreement calls for an prompt end to conflict and the return within three days of 20 surviving Israeli hostages captured by Hamas—plus the bodies of individuals presumed to be no longer alive—in return for a large number of arrested Palestinians.

International mediators are believed to be urging the organization for a agreeable answer to the proposal, but a prominent Hamas official has indicated that the militant faction is expected to refuse it.

"In case this LAST CHANCE agreement is not secured, severe retaliation, like nobody has before seen, will erupt against Hamas. WE WILL ENSURE CALM IN THE AREA NO MATTER WHAT," the President posted in the Truth Social post.

Mediators have been in touch with the leader of the group's armed faction in the territory, who has indicated that he does not agree to the new US ceasefire proposal, according to reports.

Sources indicate that a portion of the group's leadership in Qatar are open to agreeing to the plan with modifications—however have found their leverage restricted as they do not have control over the detainees held by the faction.

Another obstacle for a number of in the group is that the plan demands them to surrender each and every the detainees over the first 72 hours of the halt—giving away their primary negotiating tool.

It is estimated to be forty-eight hostages presently being kept in the Palestinian territory by the armed faction, only twenty of whom are thought to be alive.

Israel's defense forces initiated a offensive in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led assault on Israeli territory on a previous date, in which roughly twelve hundred people were slain and two hundred fifty-one others were captured.

A minimum of sixty-six thousand two hundred eighty-eight residents have been fatally injured in Israel's operations in Gaza from that point, according to the region's Hamas-controlled health ministry.