Hamas responded Friday to President Donald Trump's proposal for peace in Gaza, as the president gave a deadline of 6 p.m. ET Sunday to sign on to the plan he unveiled earlier this week.
Hamas said it will release all remaining hostages if Israel withdraws from Gaza and "proper field conditions are met." More negotiations will need to take place to finalize the deal, which Trump unveiled Monday while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
Any agreement could mean an end to the Israel Defense Forces' operation to take control of Gaza City, the largest urban area in the Gaza Strip.
Multiple Western nations recognized Palestinian statehood in recent weeks while also demanding that Hamas not be part of any future government.
Netanyahu said that Israel will not allow an independent Palestinian state to exist.
42 people killed in Gaza in 24 hours, health ministry says
Israeli forces killed 42 Palestinians and wounded 190 others in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health said Tuesday afternoon.
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation as displaced Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza move southward in the central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 30, 2025.
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That brings the Palestinian death toll in Gaza since the ongoing war began to 66,097, according to the health ministry.
Among those killed over the past day were five people trying to collect humanitarian aid, while another 56 were injured, the health ministry said.
-ABC News' Morgan Winsor
Sep 30, 2025, 7:52 AM EDT
Gaza starvation death toll reaches 453 people, health ministry says
At least 453 people, including 150 children, have starved to death in the Gaza Strip since the ongoing war began on Oct. 7, 2023, according to Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health, which released the updated figure Tuesday morning.
A boy walks with a sack on his back containing humanitarian aid in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, on Sept. 30, 2025.
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As ABC News has previously reported, a vast majority of those deaths have occurred this year, according to data previously released by the health ministry.
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Sep 30, 2025, 7:14 AM EDT
Hostage families say ceasefire plan is 'historic turning point'
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum -- a body supporting and advocating for the families of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip -- said in a statement that it was "profoundly grateful" after President Donald Trump proposed the new Gaza ceasefire framework on Monday.
Hostage families protest for the implementation of a U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza and release all hostages, near the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv on Sept. September 29, 2025.
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"We stand at a historic turning point," the forum said in a statement. "President Trump has accomplished what many said was impossible."
"This is a historic agreement that will allow our people to heal, end the war and chart a new future for the Middle East," the body added, praising Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "for accepting President Trump’s initiative."
The ongoing fighting in Gaza, the forum said, "continues to endanger the fate of our hostages. There is no reason to risk their lives when Israel has adopted President Trump's historic initiative. The world must apply maximum pressure to ensure Hamas commits to this historic opportunity for peace."
Sep 30, 2025, 4:57 AM EDT
Far-right Netanyahu ally says peace plan is 'resounding' failure
Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich -- whose Religious Zionism party is part of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government -- on Tuesday criticized the proposed Gaza ceasefire plan as "a tragedy" that will "end in tears."
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, on Sept. 29, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
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Smotrich, who is a prominent advocate of Israeli annexation of Gaza and the occupied West Bank, said in a post to X that the blueprint proposes surrendering "real achievements on the ground for political illusions."
The proposed involvement of regional Arab nations like Qatar, Jordan and Egypt in the security and governance of post-war Gaza represents "a resounding diplomatic failure," Smotrich said, and a return to what he called the "old-fashioned" mentality behind the 1993 Oslo Accords.
Smotrich set out six "red lines" for Netanyahu ahead of the latter's meeting with Trump on Monday. Despite his criticism of the deal on Tuesday, the finance minister did not say he would oppose the agreement.
"We will consult, consider, and decide, with God’s help," he wrote. "But the celebrations since yesterday are simply absurd."
Smotrich also expressed his hope that Hamas "obstinacy will once again save us from ourselves," if the group refuses to accept the latest proposal and the war continues.
