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President Donald Trump has delivered a deadline to the Hamas organization, requiring them to approve a proposed settlement for Gaza or confront severe repercussions.

Via a statement on his social media channel on the end of the week, Trump announced that an agreement must be finalized by 18:00 Washington time (22:00 GMT) on Sunday.

The outlined plan includes an swift halt to fighting and the release within three days of twenty surviving Israeli detainees captured by Hamas—along with the remnants of hostages believed to be dead—in return for many of detained Gazans.

International mediators are understood to be encouraging the organization for a agreeable answer to the proposal, but a high-ranking group official has indicated that the armed faction is expected to refuse it.

"If this ULTIMATE deal is not secured, extreme consequences, as no one has previously witnessed, will erupt against the group. WE WILL ENSURE CALM IN THE REGION NO MATTER WHAT," the President wrote in the Truth Social post.

Mediators have communicated with the leader of Hamas's armed faction in Gaza, who has signaled that he disagrees to the latest American truce proposal, as per sources.

Sources indicate that certain members of Hamas's leadership in Qatar are open to endorsing the plan with adjustments—however have realized their leverage limited as they are without authority over the hostages detained by the organization.

An additional hurdle for a number of in Hamas is that the proposal requires them to hand over the entirety of the hostages over the first three-day period of the ceasefire—surrendering their primary negotiating tool.

It is estimated to be 48 captives presently being kept in the Gazan area by the militant faction, just twenty of whom are believed to be surviving.

The Israeli military initiated a operation in Gaza in reaction to the Hamas-led offensive on Israeli territory on a previous date, in which roughly over a thousand people were lost their lives and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least thousands of residents have been fatally injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza from that point, as reported by the territory's Hamas-run health authority.