President Trump gave Hamas until Sunday evening to sign off on his peace proposal for the Middle East — warning that “all hell” will break out if they don’t.
“An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time. Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
“THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.”
Trump unveiled his proposal Monday alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said the Jewish state would have the go-ahead to “finish the job” in Gaza if Hamas didn’t agree.
The plan includes provisions for Hamas to release all remaining hostages, a new government in the Gaza Strip overseen temporarily by a “Board of Peace” with Trump and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at the head, and amnesty for Hamas terrorists.
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The “Board of Peace” will also include “experts” and Palestinians, but Hamas members will be barred.
Trump will also head Gaza redevelopment projects with the aid of other “experts” who have helped develop other Middle Eastern cities in recent years.
The peace plan also calls for humanitarian aid to flood the enclave — but only if Hamas agrees to the plan.
Trump argued that the new deadline gives Hamas members an opportunity to escape with their lives to neighboring countries.
The plan is the most comprehensive put forward by the US to end the Israel-Hamas war and has been endorsed by Muslim countries including Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The new deadline comes two days before the two-year anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, when an estimated 1,200 people across southern Israel were murdered by Hamas terrorists who slipped across the Gaza border.
“As retribution for the October 7th attack on civilization, more than 25,000 Hamas ‘soldiers’ have already been killed. Most of the rest are surrounded and MILITARILY TRAPPED, just waiting for me to give the word, ‘GO,’ for their lives to be quickly extinguished. As for the rest, we know where and who you are, and you will be hunted down, and killed,” Trump wrote Friday.
“I am asking that all innocent Palestinians immediately leave this area of potentially great future death for safer parts of Gaza.”
Neither Trump nor Netanyahu has specified how Israel plans to “finish the job” in Gaza if Hamas does not approve of the deal.