Hamas’s negotiating team ‘to study Trump’s proposal’
A diplomatic source has told Al Jazeera that Qatar and Egypt have delivered Trump’s plan to Hamas’s negotiating team, which has promised the mediators that it will study the proposal presented by Trump a short while ago.
‘This is a surrender for Hamas’
It’s a surrender for Hamas. There’s no other way of putting it.
I wish I could put a better spin on it, but Trump’s plan will be perceived by Hamas as an ultimatum to surrender or else the US will back its best friend Israel.
Now, they could be convinced that maybe they should surrender for the better, that maybe at least after three years of genocide and of incessant bombardment … that maybe that bloodbath will stop. Or that at least now, there’s a possibility, eventually, sometime in the future, for some sort of Palestinian state, God knows where.
But when the entire thing is based on the idea that there are terror networks in Gaza, that there are terrorists in Gaza, and this deal will ensure that they disarm and that the territory they once sort of governed under occupation will be disarmed, this is no less than a surrender.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/29/heres-the-full-text-of-trumps-20-point-plan-to-end-israels-war-on-gaza
Gazans say Trump’s peace plan a ‘farce’
Residents of Gaza have expressed scepticism over the latest plan by Trump, dismissing it as a farce that would fail to end the war.
“It’s clear that this plan is unrealistic,” 39-year-old Ibrahim Joudeh told the AFP news agency from his shelter in al-Mawasi on the coast in southern Gaza.
“It’s drafted with conditions that the US and Israel know Hamas will never accept. For us, that means the war and the suffering will continue.”
Abu Mazen Nassar, 52, was equally pessimistic and feared that the plan aimed to trick Palestinian factions into releasing hostages held in Gaza with no peace in return.
“This is all manipulation. What does it mean to hand over all the prisoners without official guarantees to end the war?” asked Nassar, who was displaced from his home in northern Gaza to central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
“We as a people will not accept this farce,” he said, adding: “Whatever Hamas decides now about the deal, it’s too late.”
