48 m. ago Trump tells Israel it ‘must immediately stop’ bombing Gaza to enable hostage release after Hamas accepts elements of peace plan

President says the militant group is ‘ready for a lasting peace’ based on the plan he announced on Monday

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96 m. ago Hamas AGREES to hand over all hostages under Trump peace plan for Gaza: Rejects Tony Blair

Hamas says it has agreed to release all Israeli hostages and return the remains of the deceased under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, Reuters has reported.

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1 hour ago Hamas agrees to release hostages and accepts some of Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Palestinian militant group wants to negotiate other parts of agreement

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2 h. ago Hamas AGREES to hand over all hostages under Trump peace plan for Gaza: Terrorists praise president

Hamas says it has agreed to release all Israeli hostages and return the remains of the deceased under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, Reuters has reported.

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3 h. ago Hamas agrees to release hostages under Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan

Hamas has agreed to release hostages and hand over administration of the Gaza Strip under Donald Trump's peace proposals, set to end the devastating war in Gaza

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5 h. ago US government shutdown: White House halts $2.1bn of Chicago transport funding; ‘I don’t have anything to negotiate’, says Mike Johnson – live

Trump aide Russ Vought said hold would affect work to extend and modernize city’s transit lines amid little hope Senate can agree a way out of shutdownUS government shutdown day three: Republicans and Democrats make little progress on dealTrump administration freezes $2.1bn in funds for Chicago transit projectsAs the world waits for Hamas’s response to Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, the US president has issued a new deadline for the militant group of 6pm ET on Sunday.Trump, who on Monday gave Hamas “three or four days” to respond to his ultimatum, said they were being given “one last chance”. He wrote on his Truth Social platform this morning:Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Trump vows ‘all hell’ will break loose if Hamas doesn’t agree to his Gaza peace plan by new deadline

The US president warned Hamas will be ‘quickly extinguished’ if it rejects his peace plan

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8 h. ago Trump gives Hamas deadline of Sunday to agree to Gaza peace plan

US president warns militant group that ‘all HELL . . . will break out’ if it does not sign up to his deal

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8 h. ago Donald Trump issues Hamas with new Gaza peace deadline, or face 'all hell'

The US president has urged Hamas to agree to his 'last chance' deal to end the war in Gaza by the end of this week, days after the White House released Trump's peace plan

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29 h. ago Photos show widespread protests after Israeli forces intercept Gaza

Supporters of the Global Sumud Flotilla took to the streets in several major cities — including in Rome, Istanbul, Athens and Buenos Aires — following news that Israeli forces had intercepted an international flotilla carrying activists seeking to break Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian territory.

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32 h. ago Hamas military chief 'WON'T accept Trump's peace plan and will continue to fight Israel in Gaza'

Izz al-Din al-Haddad, who played a key role in the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, is thought to believe the deal was designed to finish Hamas, whether the group accepts it or not.

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36 h. ago Gaza death toll mounts as Hamas is still considering its response to Trump's peace proposal

Hamas is still considering its response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace proposal aimed at ending the nearly two-year war in Gaza

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37 h. ago Gaza flotilla tracker: Dwindling number of boats continue voyage to Israel after Greta Thunberg arrested

The Global Sumud Flotilla is attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade

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39 h. ago Israeli navy intercepts some flotilla boats but others are nearing the coast of Gaza, activists say

Israeli navy soldiers have boarded vessels and detained dozens of activists from a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza

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57 h. ago Hamas leaders are split over whether to accept Trump's Gaza peace deal

Trump's plan calls for a ceasefire, the release of hostages by Hamas within 72 hours, the group's disarmament and a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

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58 h. ago Trump’s peace plan is everything Israelis dreamed of. But it’s a fantasy | Roy Schwartz

The president’s intervention promises a return to ‘normality’ – one that appeals to Israelis unconcerned with Gaza’s futureRoy Schwartz is a senior editor and op-ed contributor at HaaretzIt didn’t take long before the Gospel of Donald became a message that everyone in Israel could embrace. The 20-point plan to end the ongoing war in Gaza, presented on Monday by the US president, is everything the Israelis had dreamed of – even fantasised about. The hostages will finally return, some to their families, others to their graves. Hamas will be gone, at least as a ruling organisation, and the soldiers will come home. The “peace plan” will, supposedly, mean a return to normality.A brief read-through of the one-page plan might suggest that Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his people were involved in phrasing it. At times, it reads more like a list of Israeli demands than diplomatic compromises. Perhaps that’s why Netanyahu gave it his blessing rather quickly, which seemed to...

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62 h. ago Danish PM warns security situation in Europe will get worse and more serious – Europe live

Mette Frederiksen says Europe faces threats arising from the ‘real war’ in Ukraine and a new, broader hybrid warin PalermoA flotilla seeking to break Israel’s aid blockade of Gaza said on Wednesday that several of its boats had been approached by patrol vessels and a submarine, as crews braced for an Israeli raid. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Donald Trump gives Hamas the exact timeframe to accept peace deal or 'pay in hell'

US President Donald Trump has issued a stark ultimatum to Hamas, giving the terror group just "three or four days" to sign his administration's peace plan for Gaza

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68 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: I fear the Gaza peace plan rests on the fiction that Hamas will surrender. We must hope I'm wrong and that Trump is right

Donald Trump claims it's the route to 'eternal peace' and 'potentially a great day for civilisation'.

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2 d. ago Trump warns Hamas 'will pay in hell' if they don't sign his Gaza peace plan within days

Donald Trump has warned that Hamas will 'will pay in hell' if it does not accept a Gaza peace deal that calls for the disarmament of the militant group.

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