Hamas will have “three or four days” to accept a peace plan for Gaza under an ultimatum set by US President Donald Trump to force a swift agreement on his proposal with Israel to create a new authority to control the war-ravaged territory.
Trump set the deadline a day after revealing the sweeping peace proposal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, making it clear that war would continue unless Hamas leaders agreed to cede control of the Palestinian territory.
Trump dismissed the likelihood of a negotiation with Hamas, a listed terrorist group, to modify the plan to form a “board of peace” to oversee Gaza, chaired by the president himself.
“Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end,” he told reporters. He added there was