WASHINGTON (Reuters)-US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would probably know in 24 hours if Palestinian militant group Hamas agreed to accept what he called a “final proposal” for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Trump also said he talked to Saudi Arabia about the expansion of Abraham’s agreements, the agreement on the normalization of the ties his government negotiated between Israel and some Gulf countries during his first term.
Trump said on Tuesday that Israel had accepted the necessary conditions to end a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas, during which the parties will work to end the war.
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On Friday, they asked him if Hamas had agreed with the last structure of the ceasefire agreement, and he said, “We’ll see what happens, we’ll know in the next 24 hours.”
A source close to Hamas said on Thursday that the Islamic group seeks guarantees that the new proposal for a US supported ceasefire would lead to the end of the Israel war in Gaza.
Two Israeli authorities said these details are still being worked on. Dozens of Palestinians were killed Thursday in Israeli attacks, according to the Gaza authorities.
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The latest bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestine conflict, which has lasted decades, was triggered in October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and doing about 250 hostages, according to Israeli records.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health states that the subsequent military attack of Israel killed more than 56,000 Palestinians. It also caused a crisis of hunger, traveled internally the entire population of Gaza, and caused genocide accusations in the International Court of Justice and war crimes at the International Criminal Court. Israel denies the accusations.
A previous two-month ceasefire ended when Israeli attacks killed more than 400 Palestinians on March 18. Earlier this year, Trump proposed that the US take control of Gaza, which was condemned globally by human rights experts, the UN and the Palestinians as a proposal for “ethnic cleaning.”
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(Report by Kanishka Singh and Nandita Bose in Washington)
