Trump says Hamas has ‘three or four days’ to respond to Gaza proposal

US president says it volition beryllium ‘a precise bittersweet end’ if Palestinian radical does not hold to his 20-point Gaza bid plan.

United States President Donald Trump says Hamas has “three oregon 4 days” to respond to his Gaza ceasefire proposal, telling reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders had already accepted the plan.

“Hamas is either going to beryllium doing it oregon not, and if it’s not, it’s going to beryllium a precise bittersweet end,” Trump said astatine the White House connected Tuesday.

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Asked if determination was country for negotiations connected the proposal, helium replied: “Not much.”

The US president besides thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump connected Monday successful Washington, DC, “for agreeing to the plan”.

Trump’s comments travel a time aft the White House released a 20-point document that calls for an contiguous ceasefire successful the Gaza Strip, the speech of Israeli captives held by Hamas for Palestinians successful Israeli prisons and a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

Under the proposal, Hamas would beryllium required to disarm and the US would enactment with Arab and planetary partners to instal a “temporary planetary stabilization force”.

The program besides states that Hamas would play nary relation successful governing Gaza. Its members would beryllium offered amnesty if they perpetrate to “peaceful coexistence” portion those wishing to permission the enclave would beryllium granted harmless transition abroad.

Trump said the program besides envisions a transitional authorities of Palestinian technocrats to supply regular services successful Gaza, self-governance, the instrumentality of displaced residents and assurances that “the radical of Gaza volition not beryllium removed”.

The renewed propulsion to extremity Israel’s two-year warfare connected Gaza comes arsenic the Palestinian decease toll has risen supra 66,000 and the coastal enclave endures a humanitarian crisis.

Hamas’s negotiating squad is studying Trump’s plan, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed.

Meanwhile, Fatah, the Palestinian governmental faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA) successful the occupied West Bank, said publically that it welcomed US efforts to extremity the warfare and support civilians.

According to the Palestinian quality bureau Wafa, Fatah said it was acceptable to cooperate with each parties to unafraid a ceasefire, let humanitarian assistance into Gaza, guarantee the merchandise of captives and Palestinian prisoners, and found planetary mechanisms to safeguard Palestinians.

The radical besides reiterated PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s pledge to clasp elections wrong a twelvemonth of the war’s end.

But elder Fatah authoritative Abbas Zaki condemned the US connection arsenic a “document of surrender” imposed without Palestinian consent.

He warned that accepting it would “entrench humiliation, legitimise concern and fragment Palestinian unity” and accused Washington and Israel of seeking to “liquidate the Palestinian cause”.

‘Not an offer, an ultimatum’

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the UN main welcomed the US efforts and urged “all parties [to] perpetrate to an statement and its implementation”.

“The Secretary-General reiterates that our precedence indispensable beryllium to easiness the tremendous suffering caused by this conflict,” Farhan Haq said successful a statement.

Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna said Trump’s comments connected Tuesday show that his Gaza program “is not an offer” but alternatively “an ultimatum” to Hamas.

“We’ve heard an inkling of what could hap should Hamas not comply,” Hanna noted.

“Trump has specifically told Netanyahu that if Hamas doesn’t accept, helium has got to bash what he’s got to do, which is efficaciously a greenish airy for intensified Israeli enactment successful Gaza.”