Trump Issues Sunday Ultimatum for Hamas to Accept Gaza Agreement

President Trump has delivered a time limit to Hamas, requiring them to approve a proposed settlement for Gaza otherwise confront extreme consequences.

In a statement on his online account on Friday, the President stated that an agreement must be finalized by 6 PM EST (22:00 GMT) on Sunday.

The suggested proposal calls for an prompt cessation to hostilities and the release within a short period of twenty surviving Israel detainees captured by the group—along with the bodies of individuals presumed to be dead—in exchange for many of imprisoned Palestinians.

Arab and Turkish negotiators are understood to be encouraging the organization for a agreeable answer to the offer, but a prominent group figure has indicated that the armed faction is likely to reject it.

"In case this ULTIMATE settlement is not achieved, severe retaliation, as nobody has previously experienced, will break out against the group. WE WILL ENSURE CALM IN THE AREA ONE WAY OR THE OTHER," Trump posted in the online update.

Mediators have communicated with the leader of the group's armed faction in the territory, who has signaled that he disagrees to the latest American halt proposal, according to reports.

Sources indicate that a portion of Hamas's political wing in the Gulf state are receptive to agreeing to the agreement with modifications—but have realized their influence restricted as they do not have command over the hostages held by the group.

An additional obstacle for certain in Hamas is that the proposal demands them to release all the detainees over the initial short window of the ceasefire—surrendering their primary leverage point.

There are believed to be 48 captives still being kept in the Palestinian region by the armed faction, merely 20 of whom are estimated to be surviving.

Israel's defense forces launched a offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas-initiated assault on Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, in which approximately twelve hundred individuals were slain and hundreds additional individuals were taken hostage.

At least thousands of people have been fatally injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza from that point, according to the region's Hamas-controlled health authority.