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US President Trump has delivered a ultimatum to Hamas, demanding them to agree to a US-backed settlement for the Gaza region otherwise face intense repercussions.

Via a statement on his Truth Social platform on the end of the week, Trump announced that an understanding must be finalized by Sunday evening (10 PM GMT) on the coming Sunday.

The outlined proposal calls for an prompt end to hostilities and the return within 72 hours of twenty living Israel detainees captured by the group—along with the bodies of hostages presumed to be deceased—in return for hundreds of detained residents.

Arab and Turkish intermediaries are understood to be encouraging Hamas for a agreeable response to the proposal, but a prominent group figure has stated that the armed faction is likely to reject it.

"If this FINAL agreement is not reached, severe retaliation, like nobody has ever witnessed, will erupt against the group. WE WILL ACHIEVE CALM IN THE REGION NO MATTER WHAT," Trump wrote in the online post.

Intermediaries have been in touch with the chief of the group's combat unit in the territory, who has signaled that he is opposed to the latest American truce plan, based on sources.

Sources indicate that a portion of Hamas's political leadership in the Gulf state are receptive to accepting the proposal with adjustments—but have realized their leverage constrained as they are without control over the captives detained by the organization.

An additional stumbling block for certain in the group is that the proposal necessitates them to surrender each and every the detainees over the opening three-day period of the halt—giving away their sole bargaining chip.

There are believed to be 48 hostages presently being held in the Palestinian area by the armed group, merely twenty of whom are thought to be surviving.

The Israeli defense forces initiated a campaign in the Gaza Strip in response to the Hamas-led offensive on southern Israel on a previous date, in which approximately over a thousand civilians were slain and hundreds others were taken hostage.

No fewer than sixty-six thousand two hundred eighty-eight people have been lost their lives in Israel's strikes in the territory since then, based on data from the region's group-administered health ministry.