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The US leader Donald Trump has delivered a ultimatum to Hamas, requiring them to accept a American settlement for Gaza or else risk severe actions.

Via a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday, the President announced that an understanding must be finalized by Sunday evening (22:00 GMT) on Sunday.

The proposed proposal calls for an swift end to fighting and the release within three days of twenty surviving Israel detainees held by Hamas—plus the remnants of individuals presumed to be deceased—in exchange for many of imprisoned Palestinians.

Regional mediators are reported to be urging the organization for a agreeable response to the plan, but a high-ranking group official has indicated that the militant faction is expected to reject it.

"In case this ULTIMATE deal is not reached, severe retaliation, like anyone has ever witnessed, will occur against Hamas. WE WILL ACHIEVE CALM IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER," Trump posted in the Truth Social post.

Negotiators have communicated with the head of Hamas's combat unit in the territory, who has indicated that he disagrees to the latest US ceasefire initiative, according to reports.

It is thought that some of Hamas's leadership in the Gulf state are open to agreeing to the plan with modifications—however have discovered their authority constrained as they are without authority over the detainees kept by the organization.

An additional hurdle for certain in the group is that the proposal necessitates them to hand over the entirety of the captives over the initial three-day period of the ceasefire—relinquishing their only negotiating tool.

It is estimated to be 48 detainees currently being detained in the Gazan territory by the militant group, merely twenty of whom are believed to be surviving.

The Israeli military began a operation in Gaza in retaliation to the Hamas-led attack on the region on October 7, 2023, in which about twelve hundred people were slain and two hundred fifty-one additional individuals were seized.

A minimum of sixty-six thousand two hundred eighty-eight people have been lost their lives in Israeli operations in Gaza following the start, based on data from the territory's group-administered medical office.