Hamas<\/a> operatives isolated in Gaza City.\u201d Those who remained \u201cwill be considered terrorists and terrorist supporters\u201d, he said.<\/p>\nInternational humanitarian law experts have said evacuation orders amount to forced displacement and that civilians who remain in evacuated areas do not lose their protected status under international law.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military earlier announced the closure of the last remaining route for residents in southern Gaza to move north, in effect cleaving Gaza in two. Residents in the north could still move southwards along the coastal route to flee Israel\u2019s offensive, the military said.<\/p>\n
Hamas is reportedly considering requesting amendments to Trump\u2019s Gaza plan, which demands that Hamas disarm and disqualifies it from any governing role in Gaza. Trump said on Tuesday that the group would \u201cpay in hell\u201d if it rejected the plan.<\/p>\n
According to a Palestinian source close to the group who spoke to Agence France-Presse, the group could ask for changes to clauses related to disarmament and the expulsion of Hamas and its allies from Gaza. The group also wants international guarantees that Israel fully withdraws from Gaza and that no assassination attempts will be made on Hamas\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n
Egypt\u2019s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, said on Wednesday that elements of the Trump plan required further negotiation, a sentiment that Qatar had expressed a day earlier.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how the US and Israel would respond to a qualified response to the deal given the bevy of threats levelled at Hamas in recent days.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s 20-point plan also stipulates that the group must release the remaining 48 hostages it holds within 72 hours of a ceasefire coming into effect, while the Israeli military would return nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and gradually withdraw its troops to a buffer zone at the edge of the Gaza Strip. The cessation in fighting would be accompanied by a surge in humanitarian aid and reconstruction in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The plan does not outline a path to a Palestinian state, a demand of Hamas and the wider Arab world.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video after Trump announced his plan that the Israeli military would stay in most of Gaza, contrary to the plan\u2019s public terms.<\/p>\n
The Trump plan has put Hamas in a corner, demanding of it an almost unconditional surrender to stop Israel\u2019s offensive. Hamas refused several elements of the plan, including disarmament and the continued presence of Israeli troops, in previous rounds of negotiations. The group has yet to comment publicly on the Trump proposal beyond saying it is studying the terms.<\/p>\n
Two militant groups allied with Hamas in Gaza have rejected the Trump proposal, arguing that it would hand Israel virtual control over the strip.<\/p>\n
Surrendering Hamas\u2019s arms and allowing the presence of international troops and possibly Israeli troops in Gaza would probably spell an end to the group\u2019s significance in Palestinian politics.<\/p>\n
In the past, ceasefire proposals have been studied and discussed among Hamas\u2019s leadership primarily in Doha, where most of the group\u2019s senior officials live.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the current Trump plan will be debated in Doha, where Egyptian and Qatari mediators are to be joined by Turkey\u2019s head of intelligence to discuss the plan, according to Qatar\u2019s foreign ministry. Whether Hamas\u2019s leadership would join the deliberations was unclear, after an Israeli strike on Doha last month aimed to kill the group\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n
Hamas is under pressure from international powers who have widely supported Trump\u2019s plan<\/a>. The Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have said they welcomed the plan.<\/p>\nTrump\u2019s is the only ceasefire proposal on the table to end the war in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation declines day by day under Israeli bombardment and aid restrictions.<\/p>\n
Two more Palestinians died of starvation in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Palestinians who have died from hunger to 455 since the start of the war nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n
At least 51 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the last 24 hours, according to health authorities. Those killed included five people struck by an Israeli tank while gathered by a water tank, as well as others sheltering in a school repurposed to house displaced people in Gaza City.<\/p>\n
More than 66,000 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 170,000 wounded during Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, according to the Gaza ministry of health. Israel launched its war on Gaza nearly two years ago after Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel on 7 October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Israeli military has issued what it said was its final warning for Gaza City residents to flee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-466715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115300935159482175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}