Overview

• President Donald Trump set a Sunday evening Washington time cutoff for Hamas to accept his Gaza plan, warning of “real hell” if it refuses.
• Hamas said it would release all Israeli captives, alive and dead, under the plan’s exchange formula and agreed to transfer authority to an independent administration, while seeking further negotiations on other terms.
• Israeli political leaders directed the IDF to reduce actions in Gaza City to a minimum and to ready the first phase of a hostage-release plan, though residents reported strikes continued after Trump urged a pause.
• Trump called on Israel to stop bombing to enable safe, rapid hostage extraction and urged innocent Palestinians to leave a specified area for safety.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu credited military and diplomatic pressure for Hamas’s shift and said disarmament of Hamas will follow in a second phase, with Israeli negotiators led by Ron Dermer heading to Cairo to work out details.