"The 20-point plan presented Monday by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu contains only one deadline: the 72 hours that what little remains of Hamas has to surrender its only bargaining chip (the 48 hostages remaining in the Strip, less than half of whom are still alive), after Israel formally accepts the proposal. Everything else lacks dates, guarantees, and, above all, agreement from the other side: the Islamist movement, which claimed not to have received the text even before the White House distributed it to journalists."
"It is basically an ultimatum for Hamas to accept its unconditional surrender. The plan places Hamas between a rock and a hard place. On one side, it faces threats if it doesn't comply: from Netanyahu (we'll finish the job on our own) and Trump (Israel would have my full backing to finish the job of destroying the threat of Hamas.) And the suffering of a population exhausted after nearly two years of death, hunger, and endless forced displacement."
"On the other, the leap into the void of submitting to the ambush, immediately handing over the hostages, and accepting some sort of foreign government supervised by Trump himself, with no guarantee other than a document like the one Netanyahu signed last January and tore up two months later, with the full blessing of the U.S. president."
The 20-point plan sets a single enforceable deadline: 72 hours for Hamas to surrender the remaining hostages after Israel accepts the proposal. The rest of the plan lacks dates, guarantees, and acceptance by Hamas, which claimed not to have received the text. The proposal functions as an ultimatum that pressures Hamas between military threats and a devastated civilian population. The alternative being offered would force immediate hostage handovers and a foreign-supervised government with no durable guarantees, recalling a previously torn-up agreement, and leaves no viable prospect for a Palestinian state or safe return for displaced Gazans.
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