Hamas agrees to some of Trump's plan but seeks negotiations

Hamas said connected Friday it would hold to immoderate aspects of U.S. President Donald Trump's program to extremity the Gaza war, including releasing hostages and handing implicit medication of the enclave, but that it would question negotiations implicit galore of its different terms.

In a transcript of the connection seen by Reuters, Hamas issued its effect to Trump's 20-point program aft the U.S. president gave the Palestinian militant radical until Sunday to judge oregon cull the proposal. Trump has not said whether the presumption would beryllium taxable to negotiation, arsenic Hamas is seeking.

Notably, Hamas did not accidental whether it would hold to a stipulation that it disarm, a request by Israel and the U.S. that it has antecedently rejected.

In its statement, Hamas said it "appreciates the Arab, Islamic, and planetary efforts, arsenic good arsenic the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, calling for an extremity to the warfare connected the Gaza Strip, the speech of prisoners, (and) the contiguous introduction of aid," among different terms.

It said it was announcing its "approval of releasing each concern prisoners — some surviving and remains — according to the speech look contained successful President Trump's proposal, with the indispensable tract conditions for implementing the exchange."

But Hamas added: "In this context, the question affirms its readiness to instantly enter, done the mediators, into negotiations to sermon the details."

The radical said it was acceptable "to manus implicit the medication of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian assemblage of independents (technocrats) based connected Palestinian nationalist statement and supported by Arab and Islamic backing."

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected Hamas' effect to the proposal, which is backed by Israel arsenic good arsenic Arab and European powers.

Trump's program specifies an contiguous ceasefire, an speech of each hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas and the instauration of a transitional authorities led by an planetary body.