Trump gives Hamas 6 p.m. Sunday deadline to accept peace proposal before ‘all hell’ breaks loose
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.
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?who choose to give up the fight against Israel and relocate to neighboring countries.
The “Board of Peace” will also include “experts” and Palestinians, but Hamas members will be barred?having any say.
Trump will also head Gaza redevelopment projects with the aid of other “experts” who have helped develop 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.
Neither Trump nor Netanyahu has specified how Israel plans to “finish the job” in Gaza if Hamas does not approve of the deal.?
However, a senior Israeli official told The Post that the ultimate goal of the war is to “demilitarize” Gaza — not just by ridding the region of Hamas fighters, but also terrorist ideology that encourages and rewards antisemitic violence.
“[Hamas followers’] problem isn’t the absence of a Palestinian territory,” this person explained. “It’s the existence of a Jewish state.”
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Many?Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are taught from an early age?to despise both Israel and the Jews, with hateful lessons even embedded in?elementary school textbooks.?
Still, the Israeli official insisted that “thousands” of Palestinians inside Gaza oppose Hamas due to the cruelty with which they rule the coastal strip.?
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.
“President Trump has given Hamas a last chance to do the right thing for the Palestinian people; to return the hostages and lay down their arms,” said Natasha Hausdorff of UK Lawyers for Israel. “The security architecture he is proposing is a bold new vision.”
However,? Hausdorff? admitted she doubted the jihadists would take the offer.
“We know that Hamas does not care for the Palestinian people, and is maximizing casualties,” she said. “Unfortunately, even if they agree to this by Sunday, the likelihood is this internationally proscribed terrorist organisation won’t follow through.”
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.”
“I think the President wants this deal to get done, so I think the the extension of a deadline is with the thought process of getting a deal done, even if it takes a little bit longer than than the deadline he had originally imposed,” said Rabbi Micah Greenland, international director of the Jewish youth organization NCSY. “He is very strong and set a specific time. And I think it’s clear that he’s serious. That’s encouraging.”
