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Arab Diplomat: Hamas Will Likely Seek to Amend Gaza Peace Deal


(Times of Israel) Jacob Magid - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday after leaving the White House, "Now the whole world, including the Arab and Muslim world, is pressuring Hamas to accept the terms that we created together with Trump, to bring back all the hostages - the living and the dead - while the IDF stays in the majority of the Strip. Who would have believed it?!" Netanyahu managed to secure significant, last minute changes to the proposal regarding the scope and nature of the IDF's withdrawal from Gaza, along with the disarmament of Hamas. An Arab diplomat from one of the mediating countries said it will be difficult for Qatar to convince Hamas to accept the U.S. proposal as is, given that it would force the terror group to give up all of its leverage by releasing all remaining hostages in the first 72 hours of the deal. The diplomat said it will likely take at least several days for Hamas to respond, at which point it will likely have amendments of its own that it will try to submit.
2025-09-30 00:00:00
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