United States President Donald Trump says Hamas has \u201cthree or four days\u201d to respond to his Gaza ceasefire proposal, telling reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders had already accepted the plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it\u2019s not, it\u2019s going to be a very sad end,\u201d Trump said at the White House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asked if there was room for negotiations on the proposal, he replied: \u201cNot much.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The US president also thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump on Monday in Washington, DC, \u201cfor agreeing to the plan\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s comments come a day after the White House released a 20-point document that calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the exchange of Israeli captives held by Hamas for Palestinians in Israeli prisons and a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under the proposal, Hamas would be required to disarm and the US would work with Arab and international partners to install a \u201ctemporary international stabilization force\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The plan also states that Hamas would play no role in governing Gaza. Its members would be offered amnesty if they commit to \u201cpeaceful coexistence\u201d while those wishing to leave the enclave would be granted safe passage abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump said the plan also envisions a transitional government of Palestinian technocrats to provide daily services in Gaza, self-governance, the return of displaced residents and assurances that \u201cthe people of Gaza will not be removed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The renewed push to end Israel\u2019s two-year war on Gaza comes as the Palestinian death toll has risen above 66,000 and the coastal enclave endures a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamas\u2019s negotiating team is studying Trump\u2019s plan, Qatar\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Fatah said it was ready to cooperate with all parties to secure a ceasefire, allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, ensure the release of captives and Palestinian prisoners, and establish international mechanisms to safeguard Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The group also reiterated PA President Mahmoud Abbas\u2019s pledge to hold elections within a year of the war\u2019s end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki condemned the US proposal as a \u201cdocument of surrender\u201d imposed without Palestinian consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He warned that accepting it would \u201centrench humiliation, legitimise occupation and fragment Palestinian unity\u201d and accused Washington and Israel of seeking to \u201cliquidate the Palestinian cause\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, a spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the UN chief welcomed the US efforts and urged \u201call parties [to] commit to an agreement and its implementation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Secretary-General reiterates that our priority must be to ease the tremendous suffering caused by this conflict,\u201d Farhan Haq said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera\u2019s Mike Hanna said Trump\u2019s comments on Tuesday demonstrate that his Gaza plan \u201cis not an offer\u201d but rather \u201can ultimatum\u201d to Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019ve heard an inkling of what could happen should Hamas not comply,\u201d Hanna noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cTrump has specifically told Netanyahu that if Hamas doesn\u2019t accept, he has got to do what he\u2019s got to do, which is effectively a green light for intensified Israeli action in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sultan Barakat, a professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar, also described Trump\u2019s plan for Gaza as \u201cproblematic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHamas would have to give up all the leverage at the beginning of the plan to a party they don\u2019t trust and no one in the world trusts,\u201d he told Al Jazeera, adding that the way Trump presented the plan alongside Netanyahu also suggests it is skewed to Israel\u2019s advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe stood there and allowed Netanyahu to contradict the plan by saying things that clearly match his own narrow objectives,\u201d Barakat said. \u201cAnd Trump did not stop him.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" United States President Donald Trump says Hamas has \u201cthree or four days\u201d to respond to his Gaza ceasefire proposal, telling reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders had already accepted the plan. \u201cHamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it\u2019s not, it\u2019s going to be a very sad end,\u201d Trump said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qeyadat.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Meanwhile, Fatah, the Palestinian political faction that dominates the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the occupied West Bank, said publicly that it welcomed US efforts to end the war and protect civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u2018Not an offer, an ultimatum\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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