Hamas demands that Israel leave Gaza and says it is taking Trump’s “Final” ceasefire proposal into consideration

Hamas claims to be examining Trump’s latest ceasefire ideas, but it still demands Israel completely leave Gaza.

Despite claiming to be examining what US President Donald Trump called a “final” ceasefire plan for Gaza, Hamas maintains that any deal must cover Israel’s full disengagement from the region.

The Palestinian party stated Wednesday that it was “examining” the fresh ideas from Qatar and Egypt, the mediators. But any agreement must “ensure an end to the war and an Israeli pullout from Gaza,” it insisted.

The news comes after US officials and Israeli officials met for a “long and productive” time, and President Trump claimed on Tuesday that Israel had accepted to the terms of a 60-day truce.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, reaffirmed his government’s harsh position and said that the elimination of Hamas is not negotiable in his first public remarks following Trump’s statement.

No Hamas will exist. No Hamastan will exist. That is not where we are going to go. At a ceremony sponsored by the Trans-Israel pipeline, Netanyahu declared, “It’s over.”

In spite of the deeply held beliefs, some Gazan Palestinians are feeling cautiously optimistic after Trump’s statement. Living in Gaza City, Kamal told reporters over the phone, “I hope it would work this time, even if it were only for two months, it would save thousands of innocent lives.”

Others were still doubtful. From Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Adnan Al-Assar stated, “We hope he is serious like he was serious during the Israeli-Iranian war when he said the war should stop, and it stopped.”

Due to the disastrous effects of the nearly two-year-old conflict on Gaza, Netanyahu is under increasing political pressure to negotiate a lasting truce, a demand that the hardliners in his right-wing coalition vehemently oppose.

A truce between Israel and Iran that was just mediated after a 12-day flare-up last month, together with attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, has put more pressure on Tehran-backed Hamas.

The coalition’s majority, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, would support an agreement that guaranteed the release of the remaining hostages that Hamas had.

“We must not pass up an opportunity to do so if one exists!” Saar wrote something on X. Approximately twenty of the fifty hostages supposed to be in Gaza are believed to be alive.

Additionally, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid supplied political justification for any deal by claiming that his party might act as a parliamentary “safety net” in the event that Netanyahu’s government encounters internal resistance.

In the case that far-right members of the coalition oppose a ceasefire, Lapid’s promise not to support a no-confidence motion would help keep Netanyahu’s partnership intact.