US President Donald Trump published an ultimatum in Hamas on 2200 GMT on Sunday to accept his Gaza Peace Agreement or face “All Hell”. While Hamas has requested more time to examine the agreement.
Palestinian activists have until “Sunday evening at six (6) PM, Washington, DC Time”, posted Trump on his social platform Truth.
“If this last chance agreement is not concluded, all hell, as no one has ever seen before, will separate against Hamas.”
In the post, Trump said that “innocent Palestinians” should evacuate an unpertified area in anticipation of a potential assault against the remaining forces of Hamas.
Most Hamas fighters “are surrounded and trapped militarily, just waiting for me to give the word,” go “to make their lives quickly. As for the rest, we know where and who you are, and you will be hunted and killed,” said Trump.
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“I ask that all the innocent Palestinians immediately leave this potentially formidable future death area for safer games from Gaza. Everyone will be well treated by those waiting to help. Fortunately for Hamas, however, they will have a last chance!”
Trump’s peace proposal after almost two years of devastating Israeli chairs against Gaza was supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but so far has not been accepted by Hamas.
The agreement requires a cease-fire, the release of hostages within 72 hours, the disarmament of Hamas and a progressive Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
This would be followed by a post-war transition authority led by Trump himself.
It was not clear what Trump’s evacuation order meant to Palestinian civilians.
The Israeli army leads an air and soil offensive to the largest urban center in the territory, of which hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee.
On Friday, the UN reiterated that there was no safe place in Gaza and that the areas designated by Israel in the South were “places of death”.
The offensive of Israel killed at least 66,225 Palestinians, according to personalities from the Ministry of Health in the territory led by Hamas that the United Nations consider reliable.
Hamas takes more time to examine the proposal
An official in Hamas told AFP on Friday that the group still needed time to study US President Donald Trump’s plan to end almost two years of devastating war in Gaza.
The proposal, supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calls a cease-fire, the release of hostages within 72 hours, the disarmament of Hamas and a progressive Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
This would be followed by a post-war transition authority led by Trump himself.
“Hamas is still continuous consultations concerning Trump’s plan … and has informed the mediators that consultations are underway and need time,” said the official on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak publicly on the issue.
Mohammad Nazzal, member of the Hamas political bureau, said in a statement on Friday that “the plan had concern, and we will announce our position on this subject soon”.
Friday, in the field, the Gaza Civil Defense Agency – a rescue force operating under the authority of Hamas – reported heavy air bombings and artillery bombings in the city of Gaza.
He said that Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people across the territory, including eight in Gaza City.
AFP contacted the Israeli army to comment.
Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing the expanses of the average AFP territory cannot independently verify the details or personalities provided by the Israeli army or civil defense.
‘Places of death’
The Israeli army leads an air and soil offensive to the largest urban center in the territory, of which hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee.
On Friday, the UN reiterated that there was no safe place in Gaza and that the areas designated by Israel in the South were “places of death”.
“The concept of safe zone in the south is eccentric,” said Unicef spokesperson James Elder, to journalists in Geneva, speaking of the Gaza Strip.
Amnesty International condemned a “catastrophic wave of mass travel” while Israel intensified its Gaza City offensive.
“Two opinions” in Hamas “
Another familiar source with negotiations told AFP that the group was divided in Trump’s plan.
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Structurally, the group’s management is divided between officials based on the Gaza Strip and those abroad, in particular in Qatar.
A large part of the leaders of Hamas were also destroyed in Israeli attacks throughout the war.
The source told AFP that “the first (opinion) supports unconditional approval, because priority is a cease-fire under the guarantees of Trump, the mediators guaranteeing that Israel implements the plan”.
“The second has serious reserves concerning key clauses … They promote conditional approval with clarifications reflecting requests for Hamas and Resistance factions,” added the source.
Hugh Lovatt, a researcher in senior politics at the European Council for Foreign Relations, said “that it is ultimately a question of convincing Hamas leadership in Doha, but also management in Gaza, as well as members of Hamas and combatants in Gaza,” he added.
“In addition, Hamas must then be able to convince other factions in Gaza,” he added.
