Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to accept his plan for Gaza
He threatens to "unleash hell like never before" if the Islamist group does not accept the proposal.
WashingtonUS President Donald Trump seems to be running out of patience. On Monday, from the White House and alongside Benjamin Netanyahu, he presented the his so-called peace plan for the Gaza Strip, and has been waiting for Hamas's response ever since. At the time, he said he gave them "three or four days." But today he has set a more precise deadline: 6 p.m. Sunday in Washington, midnight in Catalonia. If not, he warned, "hell will break loose like never before" against the Palestinian Islamist group.
"An agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday night at 6 p.m. Washington, DC time. All countries have signed! Failure to reach this agreement, which is a last chance, will unleash hell on Hamas such as has never been seen before. peace. Trump once again displays his doctrine regarding how to end conflicts: "Peace through strength."
In a rebound, Trump has also indirectly threatened all Palestinians: "I demand that all innocent Palestinians immediately leave this area—which could be the scene of great disaster in the future—and move to safer parts of Gaza." The peace plan for Gaza agreed upon with Netanyahu promised that there would be no forced displacement of the Palestinian population, but now the Republican tells Gazans to leave an unspecified area of the Strip for safer areas or they will suffer the "hell" he plans to unleash against Hamas. In the post, he also demands the return of all hostages still in the Strip.
According to anonymous sources in various media outlets, Hamas has asked for "more time" to study the proposal. But now there is a deadline.
Trump and Netanyahu agreed on a plan to end the war in Gaza without the Palestinians, putting full pressure on Hamas from the outset to accept it, keeping in mind that if it doesn't, the United States will give "full support" so that Israel can "finish the job" in the Strip. Instead of an olive branch, the American president is holding a gun pointed at a Palestinian population tired of burying its victims almost two years after the start of the war. The genocide perpetrated by Tel Aviv has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians, while subjecting the rest of the Strip's inhabitants to constant bombing and starvation.
The president has emphasized how his peace plan has the support of "very wealthy nations in the Middle East, the surrounding areas, and beyond," referring to Arab and Muslim countries. Including Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The plan to end the war calls for a reform of the Palestinian Authority and only proposes the withdrawal of Israeli troops as Gaza comes under the control of new security forces that Washington will create in collaboration with Arab and international partners. Furthermore, the Strip will eventually become a sort of US protectorate, where the transitional administration will be headed by Trump himself.
The transitional administration proposed by Trump is not so different from the announcement he made at the press conference seven months ago with Netanyahu, where he already hinted at the idea that the United States would "take over" the Gaza Strip.The international community was outraged, but now it seems they have accepted it as completely normal.