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Main events on September 29th

  • US President Donald Trump unveiled a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza, saying that if Hamas does not accept it, he will give full support to Israel to do “what it has to do”.
  • Diplomatic sources told Al Jazeera that Hamas’s negotiating team is reviewing the proposal.
  • The plan has been welcomed by several Western nations, including France and Italy, as well as Arab and Muslim countries, such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan.
  • The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has said he considered the US proposal to be a “recipe to blow up the region”.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu apologised to Qatar’s prime minister for the death of a Qatari in the Israeli attack on Doha earlier this month.
  • As talks were ongoing in Washington, Israel’s attacks continued in Gaza, where at least 39 people were killed.
  • An Israeli drone strike on southern Lebanon killed one person.