Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to accept his plan for Gaza

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 was giving them "three or four days." But today he has set a more stringent deadline: 6 p.m. Sunday in Washington, midnight in Catalonia. If not, he warned, "hell will break loose like never before seen" 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! If this agreement, which is a last chance, is not reached, hell will break loose against Hamas like never before seen, a person who must be a candidate for the Middle East." Social Truth. Trump once again displays his doctrine regarding how to end conflicts: "Peace through strength."

Trump also indirectly threatened all Palestinians: "I ask 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 Gaza peace plan agreed upon with Netanyahu promised no forced displacement of Palestinians, but now the Republican is telling Gazans to leave an unspecified area of the Strip for safer areas if they don't want to suffer the "hell" he plans to unleash on 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 clear deadline. In Monday's joint appearance, Trump made it clear that he would give his full support to the Israeli prime minister to "finish the job" in Gaza if Hamas did not accept the plan.

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, on the grounds that if it did not, the United States would provide "full support" so that Israel could "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 graves 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 plans for the withdrawal of Israeli troops on the condition that they take action. Gaza will be controlled by new security forces that Washington will create in collaboration with Arab and international partners. Likewise, the Strip will end up becoming a kind of US protectorate, where the transitional administration will be headed by the US president 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 then, but now it seems to have accepted it as completely normal.