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US President Trump has delivered a ultimatum to the Hamas organization, requiring them to approve a proposed ceasefire agreement for Gaza otherwise risk extreme consequences.

Through a statement on his online platform on the end of the week, the President declared that an deal must be finalized by 18:00 Washington time (10 PM GMT) on Sunday.

The outlined proposal calls for an prompt halt to fighting and the return within a short period of 20 living Israel hostages kept by the group—along with the bodies of individuals presumed to be no longer alive—for a large number of arrested residents.

Regional intermediaries are believed to be encouraging the organization for a favorable answer to the plan, but a high-ranking group representative has stated that the armed group is probable to refuse it.

"In case this FINAL deal is not achieved, extreme consequences, like anyone has before experienced, will erupt against Hamas. WE WILL ENSURE STABILITY IN THE REGION NO MATTER WHAT," Trump stated in the social media message.

Intermediaries have communicated with the head of the group's armed faction in the territory, who has signaled that he disagrees to the recent US truce initiative, based on information.

Sources indicate that some of Hamas's political wing in Qatar are receptive to agreeing to the proposal with modifications—but have discovered their influence restricted as they do not have command over the captives held by the faction.

A further obstacle for some in the group is that the plan requires them to hand over each and every the hostages over the first three-day period of the truce—relinquishing their only bargaining chip.

Reports suggest to be 48 hostages presently being detained in the Palestinian territory by the militant faction, merely 20 of whom are estimated to be surviving.

The Israeli military initiated a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-initiated offensive on the region on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 individuals were killed and two hundred fifty-one additional individuals were captured.

No fewer than 66,288 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in the territory since then, as reported by the region's group-administered medical office.