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President Donald Trump said Hamas will have three to four days to respond to a proposed Gaza peace plan.
Trump said there wasn't "much room" for negotiation on the offer while speaking to reporters as he left the White House ahead of his speech in front of a gathering of top U.S. military leaders at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Virginia, Tuesday (September 30) morning via NBC News. The president also repeated the same remark he made on Monday (September 29) claiming he'd allow Israel to “go and do what they have to do" if Hamas rejected the deal.
The proposed peace deal would reportedly disarm Hamas, provide humanitarian aid for Palestinians and promise the reconstruction of Gaza, but includes a vague promise of Palestinian statehood potentially being possible some day, according to the Associated Press.
A United Nations commission comprised of a team of independent experts formally accused Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and called on the international community to end the campaign earlier this month.
“The international community cannot stay silent on the genocidal campaign launched by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza. When clear signs and evidence of genocide emerge, the absence of action to stop it amounts to complicity,” said Navi Pillay, chair of the commission, via NBC News. “Every day of inaction costs lives and erodes the credibility of the international community."
Israel, which launched its war with Hamas following the terror attacks on a music festival in October 2023, rejected the accusations as "distorted and false." U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Israel now only has "a very short window" to reach a cease-fire deal with Hamas following the launching of expanded ground operations.