Hamas said on Friday it approved parts of Donald Trump’s ultimatum to end the war in Gaza, agreeing to a hostage exchange and to surrender governing power in the Gaza Strip, but insisted on further negotiations over aspects of the plan. The group did not say whether it would lay down its arms – a key part of Trump’s proposal – and kept its response vague to other parts of the 20-part proposal...

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered Israel to stop bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of his plan to end the nearly two-year war and return all the remaining hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Hamas said it was willing to release the hostages and hand over power to other Palestinians, but that other aspects of the plan require further...

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From 3h ago 17.19 EDT Trump says Hamas is ready for peace, says 'Israel must immediately stop the bombing of Gaza' Donald Trump just welcomed the response from Hamas to his peace plan, without worrying about the parts of it that the Palestinian movement said need to be negotiated further, and urged Israel to stop bombing Gaza “immediately” in a social media post that was shared by the White...

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Pinned President Trump said he believed Hamas was “ready for a lasting PEACE” and demanded Israel “immediately stop the bombing of Gaza” after the militant group said on Friday that it was ready to release all of the Israeli hostages. But the group made clear that it wanted to negotiate elements of the peace plan proposed by President Trump earlier this week. A statement released by the...

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Donald Trump ordered Israel to “immediately” stop bombing Gaza as he welcomed Hamas’s partial acceptance of his ultimatum to end the nearly two-year war. Hamas has agreed to release all hostages in return for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, as well as surrender governing power in the Gaza Strip, in accordance with Trump’s plan. In a statement on Friday evening, the Palestinian...

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