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President Trump has delivered a time limit to the Hamas organization, requiring them to accept a US-backed ceasefire agreement for Gaza or face severe actions.

Through a message on his Truth Social account on Friday, Trump stated that an understanding must be finalized by Sunday evening (10 PM GMT) on the coming Sunday.

The suggested proposal involves an prompt end to hostilities and the freeing within 72 hours of twenty surviving Israeli captives held by Hamas—along with the remnants of individuals presumed to be no longer alive—for hundreds of imprisoned Gazans.

International mediators are understood to be urging the organization for a favorable response to the offer, but a prominent Hamas figure has suggested that the militant group is probable to refuse it.

"In case this LAST CHANCE agreement is not secured, all HELL, like nobody has previously seen, will erupt against the group. WE WILL ENSURE STABILITY IN THE REGION BY ANY MEANS," the President wrote in the Truth Social message.

Negotiators have made contact with the chief of Hamas's military wing in the territory, who has suggested that he disagrees to the latest American truce initiative, as per sources.

It is thought that a portion of Hamas's leadership in Qatar are willing to endorsing the agreement with changes—however have realized their authority constrained as they are without control over the captives held by the organization.

A further stumbling block for a number of in the group is that the proposal requires them to release each and every the detainees over the opening 72 hours of the truce—surrendering their primary negotiating tool.

There are believed to be 48 hostages currently being detained in the Palestinian area by the militant group, merely twenty of whom are estimated to be living.

Israel's army initiated a offensive in Gaza in reaction to the group's offensive on the region on a previous date, in which approximately over a thousand individuals were slain and two hundred fifty-one others were seized.

No fewer than sixty-six thousand two hundred eighty-eight residents have been lost their lives in Israeli operations in the territory from that point, as reported by the territory's group-administered medical office.