Sept. 7, 2025, 3:53 p.m. ET2 hours ago
Erica L. Green
President Trump, in a post on Truth Social, issued an ominous warning to Hamas to accept a deal he has proposed to end the war in Gaza and release hostages taken during its Oct. 7, 2023 attack in Israel. “The Israelis have accepted my Terms,” he wrote on Sunday. “It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning, there will not be another one!” Trump has notably said little in recent weeks about the continuing famine, displacement and bombing that has decimated the enclave, nor Israel’s discussions to take over Gaza City.
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LIVE: Hamas ‘welcomes’ new US ceasefire proposal, Israel pounds Gaza City
What’s in Trump’s ceasefire proposal?
By Heidi Zhou-Castro
Reporting from Washington, US.
Trump was reportedly playing golf with special envoy Steve Witkoff exactly a week ago when they developed a new ceasefire proposal.
They communicated it to Hamas not through the established channels – through mediators Qatar and Egypt – but rather through backchannels, namely an Israeli peace activist and Israeli-American businessman.
According to the reports, the terms of this agreement are that Hamas releases all 48 remaining captives in exchange for some 3,000 Palestinians who have been imprisoned in Israel.
Israel would agree not to invade and occupy Gaza City and Trump would oversee the deal personally as talks to end the war begin and a ceasefire with no end date continues.
It’s not clear if Israel agrees to these terms, as Trump claimed in his Truth Social post.
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Israel never responded to ceasefire deal accepted by Hamas
By Hamdah Salhut
Reporting from Amman, Jordan.
Al Jazeera is reporting from Amman, Jordan, because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank.
There was a framework on the table presented by mediators nearly three weeks ago, which Hamas said ‘yes’ to. The mediators, which are Qatar and Egypt, said this deal included pretty much everything Israel wanted – around 90 percent – and the other 10 percent would be negotiated starting on day one of the deal.
However, the Israelis never responded to that, but moved forward with the occupation of Gaza City and further military action.
What we are hearing from Israeli media is that new proposal would see the 48 captives being released on the first day of the deal, something that Hamas said they weren’t interested in because they would lose all their leverage with the Israelis.
There are members of the Israeli opposition saying that Israel didn’t respond to [the framework that was already on the table] because there is no plan in place for what is going to happen after the war on Gaza ends. There hasn’t been any plan from Netanyahu’s government on how they are going to move forward after a conflict that lasted almost two years.
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A little earlier:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he is giving "very serious" consideration to a comprehensive hostage deal proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, though he believes Hamas will likely "remain obstinate" and refuse to agree.
His remarks came as he has yet to respond to a partial deal advanced by mediators and greenlit by Hamas last month.
Trump presented a new proposal in recent days, but sources familiar with its details told Haaretz that not all of the information reported this evening in the Israeli media is accurate. A senior Israeli official said that the...
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-09-07/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-weighs-trump-hostage-deal-plan-after-failing-to-respond-to-hamas/00000199-2567-d336-addd-6f7fab890000
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