Israel kills 59 people in Gaza Tuesday as Hamas reviews Trump’s plan to end war

Oct 01, 2025 News

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(AL-JAZEERA) Israeli forces continued to escalate attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 59 people since dawn on Tuesday.

In the midst of the chaos, Hamas’s negotiating team said it is still studying US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza. Palestinians in Gaza have said the plan raises many questions, including what a proposed international stabilisation force for the enclave might look like.

Trump’s Gaza plan provides ‘neither justice nor accountability’

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has sharply criticised Trump’s plan for ending the war in Gaza, calling it shallow, neo-colonial and void of Palestinian voices.

The UK-based group said the plan ignores the root causes of Israel’s occupation, offers vague withdrawal terms with no enforcement, and risks giving Netanyahu tools to stall or derail peace.

It warned that the proposals entrench Gaza’s isolation, fragment Palestinian unity, and fail to guarantee justice or accountability for Israeli war crimes.

ICJP said the plan’s “Board of Peace”, to be led by Trump and figures including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, reflects a “paternalistic” approach that excludes Palestinians from deciding their own future. It also noted that Netanyahu has already confirmed Israeli troops will remain in “most” of Gaza and dismissed any prospect of a Palestinian state.

“This plan offers Israel yet another opportunity to pause, rearm, and then return to violence with renewed impunity,” said ICJP’s public affairs officer Orlaith Roe, adding that it provides “neither justice nor accountability”.

The Palestinian political movement that dominates the Palestinian Authority has welcomed efforts led by Trump to end the war in Gaza and protect innocent lives, according to a statement carried by the official Wafa news agency.

The group said it is ready to cooperate with all parties to secure a ceasefire, allow humanitarian aid into the famine-struck enclave, ensure the release of captives and Palestinian prisoners, and establish international mechanisms to safeguard Palestinians.

The statement also called for the release of frozen Palestinian tax funds, a complete Israeli withdrawal, and steps to restore unity across Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem as part of a two-state solution.

Fatah added that it supports President Mahmoud Abbas’s pledge to implement reforms, including holding presidential and parliamentary elections within a year of the war’s end.

But senior Fatah official Abbas Zaki struck a sharply different tone in separate comments to local media, describing the US plan as a “document of surrender” imposed on Palestinians without their consent.

He warned that accepting such proposals would entrench humiliation, legitimise occupation, and fragment Palestinian unity, accusing Washington and Israel of plotting to “liquidate the Palestinian cause”.

Trump says Hamas has ‘three or four days’ to respond to Gaza proposal

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump says Hamas has “three or four days” to respond to his Gaza ceasefire proposal, telling reporters that Israeli and Arab leaders had already accepted the plan.

“Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it’s not, it’s going to be a very sad end,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday.

Asked if there was room for negotiations on the proposal, he replied: “Not much.

The US president also thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met with Trump on Monday in Washington, DC, “for agreeing to the plan”.

Trump’s comments come a day after the White House released a 20-point document that calls for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the exchange of Israeli captives held by Hamas for Palestinians in Israeli prisons and a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

Under the proposal, Hamas would be required to disarm and the US would work with Arab and international partners to install a “temporary international stabilization force”.

The plan also states that Hamas would play no role in governing Gaza. Its members would be offered amnesty if they commit to “peaceful coexistence” while those wishing to leave the enclave would be granted safe passage abroad.

Trump said the plan also envisions a transitional government of Palestinian technocrats to provide daily services in Gaza, self-governance, the return of displaced residents and assurances that “the people of Gaza will not be removed”.

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• Gaza, Hamas, Israeli forces, Palestinians, war

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