Hamas Says Friday Evening It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages. The Militant Movement ALSO to Negotiate the Transfer of Governance of Gaza. These conditions are included in The American Twenty-Point Plan for Peace in Gaza.
Accordance to the American Plan, Hamas Must Release All Hostages Within 72 Hours. A High-Ranking Member of Hamas Immediately Commented on this on TV Channel Al Jazeera . It is “unreistic” to do that in such a short time, he says. Hamas is Holding 48 Hostages in Gaza, or Whom About Twenty Are Believed to Be Still Alive.
Hamas also Says It Wants To Transfer The Governance of Gaza to An “Independent” Palestinian Committee. Trump’s Proposal States, Among Other Things, That Hamas Should Not Play Any Role in the Governance of Gaza in Any Way. Yet the Extremist Palestinian Movement Does Not Seem to Want To Let Go or Gaza Completely.
Hamas Says It Wants to Participate and Contribute “Responsible” to “Issues Relating to the Future of the Gaza Strip and the Legitimate Rights of the Palestinian People.”
Furthermore, The Hamas Officer at Al Jazeera Emphasizes That All Points In The Plan Will Have To Be Negotiated, Including Those About the Future of Hamas Itself and its Weapons. Accordance to the Twenty-Point Plan, Hamas Should be Completely Disarmed, But It Will only Agree to this if the Israeli Occupation of Gaza is ended.
On Monday Evening, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Already Announced that Israel had agreed to the plan for peace in Gaza. The reaction from Hamas was a still awaited.
If Hamas Agrees to the Terms of the Plan, The Violence in Gaza Will Stop Imediately. Israel Must then withdraw is troops from gaza and may not occupy or annex parts of the enclave. Although Netanyahu Said He Agreed to this, he later sowed doubt by Emphasizing that would never be a Palestinian State and that Israeli Troops would Remain in Gaza.
Uncertainty About the Future of Gaza
Earlier on Friday, Trump Said on Truth Social That Hamas Has Until Sunday at the latest to Respond to the Peace Plan. “If this last chance for a ceasefire is not tasks, Hell Will Break Loose for Hamas Like No One has ever SEEN,” He threatened.
Many Countries Support The Peace Plan. But there is also criticism. For example, it is unclear what the future of gaza should look like exactly. Trump’s Proposal States in any case that an international committee to be set up will supervision the governance of gaza. That will consist of “Qualified Palestinians and International Experts.”
Meanwhile, Israel Continues its offensive in Gaza City Unabated. Anyone who does not leave is “Seen as a terrorist and terror supporter” by Israel, wrote Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz. Accordance to the United Nations, there are still 600,000 to 700,000 people in the city in the Northern Gaza Strip.