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Waiting for Hamas response – Trump sets deadline
Updated on October 1st, 2025 – 02:06 a.m.Reading time: 4 min.
The new Gaza plan from Trump is international with great approval. Trump sets the Hamas a deadline for a reaction. First of all, it only announces that they want to check everything carefully.
After the presentation of the peace plan of US President Donald Trump for an end to the Gaza War, the pressure on the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas is growing. US President Donald Trump gave the terrorist organization “about three or four days” on Tuesday (local time Washington) to react to his plan. Hamas said that he was carefully checked. Internationally, the project – also with Arab and Muslim representatives – had met with a positive response.
Trump introduced the 20-point plan on Monday (local time) at a meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington. Netanyahu agreed. States such as Egypt, Turkey and Qatar are said to have reacted positively to the project.
The plan provides for the release of all 48 Israeli hostages within 72 hours. In return, Israel wants to relieve several hundred Palestinians from custody. At the same time, the army should gradually withdraw from the Gaza Strip. Hamas members can receive or leave amnesty when giving weapons. The Hamas still holds 48 hostages in the Gaza Strip, including German citizens. According to Israeli information, 20 of the kidnapped are still alive.
Trump said that now you just wait for Hamas. “And Hamas will either agree or not, and if it does not agree, it will take a very sad end.” He emphasized that all Arab and Muslim countries had agreed – just like Israel.
From the Hamas circles it was said that the terrorist organization had received the proposal from the Qatar and Egyptian intermediaries. Accordingly, the Islamists want to “carefully check the plan” before they give an official answer.
How the terrorist organization will react remained open at first. Observers calculated with possible demands or restrictions. However, the broadcaster i24news reported that from Israeli perspective there was no scope – Hamas could only accept or reject the plan.
The BBC quoted a rank-high Hamas representative who said that Trump’s peace plan was probably rejected because he “serves the interests of Israel” and “ignoring the interests of the Palestinian people”. Hamas is probably not ready to give up her weapons. However, this is a central condition of Trump’s plan.
Another essential sticking point for Hamas is likely to be that she asked to release all hostages at once – and thus give up their only negotiating mass. In other media reports, however, it is said that Hamas tends to accept the plan.
