Overview

• At a White House event, President Donald Trump unveiled a 20–21 point proposal and said Benjamin Netanyahu agreed it meets Israel’s war aims.
• The plan gives Hamas up to 72 hours to return all remaining hostages, freezes military operations during the exchange, and bars the group from future governance in Gaza.
• Governance would shift to a temporary technocratic Palestinian committee overseen by a U.S.-led Peace Council that includes Tony Blair, with a regional stabilization force supporting security and border monitoring.
• Israel would free 250 prisoners serving life sentences and 1,700 detainees from post–October 7 arrests, offer amnesty to Hamas members who lay down arms, allow humanitarian relief under UN and Red Crescent management, and forswear annexation or forced displacement.
• Hamas says it has not formally received the offer, Trump warned the U.S. will back Israel if it is rejected, Israel and the U.S. discussed a trilateral track with Qatar, and reactions ranged from Gazan skepticism to cautious hope among Israeli hostage families.