Protests supporting Gaza take place in Europe

Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday.

ByDavid Brennan, Meredith Deliso, and Nadine El-Bawab
Last Updated: October 5, 2025, 1:46 PM EDT

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.

Key Headlines

Here's how the news is developing.
Sep 30, 2025, 11:16 AM EDT

Hamas has about '3 or 4 days' to respond to Gaza deal, Trump says

President Donald Trump told ABC News that he is giving Hamas "three or four days" to respond to the proposal he unveiled on Monday to end the war in Gaza. If they don’t sign on, Trump said, “it’s going to be a very sad end.”

He said that there was "not much" negotiating room for Hamas over this plan.

Asked what he meant when he said Israel can do what they have to do if Hamas rejects the deal and what he envisions that will look like, Trump reiterated, "I will let them go and do what they have to do. They can do it pretty easily. I would let them go and do what they have to do."

"They paid a big price," he said of Hamas. "We hope that they’re going to have a nice, calm life. Maybe it won’t happen but if it does, it’ll be one of the greatest things to ever happen. We’ll have actual peace in the Middle East.

-ABC News' Mary Bruce and Isabella Murray

Sep 30, 2025, 9:35 AM EDT

2 Israeli teenagers injured in a car-ramming incident in West Bank

Two Israeli teenagers were injured in a car-ramming incident in the West Bank on Tuesday, the Israeli military and medical emergency services confirmed.

The IDF described the incident as a terrorist attack, stating that the perpetrator also "attempted a stabbing" at the scene before being neutralized.

The teens are currently in moderate and moderate-to-serious condition, according to MDA, Israel’s national emergency medical service.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller

Sep 30, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT

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.
Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters

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.
Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images

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.

-ABC News' Samy Zyara and Morgan Winsor

Related Topics

Sponsored Content by Taboola