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| ‘The closest we’ve ever come’: Full text of Trump, Netanyahu statements on deal to end Gaza war |
| 2025-09-30 |
| [IsraelTimes] President says ultimate goal is ‘eternal peace in Middle East,’ but that US will back Israel to finish the job ‘if Hamas rejects the deal’; PM says plan ‘achieves our war aims’. President Trump: So let us not forget how we got here. Hamas was elected by the Palestinian people. Israel withdrew from Gaza thinking they would live in peace. Remember that — a long time ago, they withdrew. They said, You take it. This is our contribution to peace. But that didn’t work out. That didn’t work out. It was the opposite of peace. They pulled away, they let them have it. And I never forgot that because I said, That doesn’t sound like a good deal to me as a real estate person. They gave up the ocean, right? Ron, they gave up the ocean. They said, Who would do this deal? And it still didn’t work out. They were very generous, actually. And they gave up the most magnificent piece of land in many ways in the Middle East. And they said, All we want to do now is have peace. That request was not honored. Instead of building a better life for the Palestinians, Hamas diverted resources to build over 400 miles of tunnels and terror infrastructure, rocket production facilities and hid their military command post and launch sites in hospitals, schools, and mosques. So if you went after them, you’d be after them and you wouldn’t even realize you ended up knocking out a hospital or a school or a mosque. A terrible thing, terrible way to have to fight. No fight is good, but that’s a real bad one. So there are many Palestinians who wish to live in peace. I’ve seen so many of them, and they have support. And I challenge the Palestinians to take responsibility for their destiny because that’s what we’re giving them. We’re giving them responsibility for their destiny, fully condemn and prohibit terrorism and earn their way to a brighter future. They don’t want the life that they’ve had. They’ve had a rough life with Hamas. PM Netanyahu: I think we should understand that we’re giving everybody a chance to have this done peacefully, something that will achieve all our war objectives without any further bloodshed. But if Hamas rejects your plan, Mr. President, or if they supposedly accept it and then basically do everything to counter it, then Israel will finish the job by itself. Some Gazans declare Trump’s Gaza plan a ‘farce’ and ‘unrealistic’; others dare to hope [IsraelTimes] Residents of war-torn Gaza express skepticism over the latest peace plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump, dismissing it as a farce that fails to end the war. “It’s clear that this plan is unrealistic,” 39-year-old Ibrahim Joudeh tells AFP from his shelter in the so-called humanitarian zone of Al-Mawasi in south Gaza. “It’s drafted with conditions that the US and Israel know Hamas will never accept. For us, that means the war and the suffering will continue,” says the computer programmer, originally from the southern city of Rafah, devastated by a military offensive that began in May. Abu Mazen Nassar, 52, is equally pessimistic and fears that the plan aimed to trick Palestinian terror groups into releasing hostages held in Gaza, and no peace in return. “This is all manipulation. What does it mean to hand over all the prisoners without official guarantees to end the war?” says Nassar, displaced from his home in north Gaza in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. “We as a people will not accept this farce,” he says, adding that “whatever Hamas decides now about the deal, it’s too late.” “Hamas has lost us and drowned us in the flood it created.” Some, like Anas Sorour, a 31-year-old street vendor from the south Gazan city of Khan Younis also displaced to Al-Mawasi, dares to hope. “Despite everything we’ve lived through and lost in this war… I still have hope,” Sorour tells AFP. “No war lasts forever. This time I am very optimistic, and God willing it will be a moment of joy that makes us forget our pain and our anguish,” he adds. But others like 29-year-old homemaker Najwa Muslim, can no longer imagine anything changing. “I haven’t only lost faith in the deal; I’ve lost faith in life”, Muslim tells AFP from central Gaza, where she sought refuge after being displaced from Gaza City, currently under a massive Israeli military offensive. “If there was a real intention to stop the war, they wouldn’t have waited this long. That’s why I don’t believe any of their words.” Mohammed al-Beltaji, a 47-year-old from Gaza City, summarizes his view of negotiations to AFP. “As always, Israel agrees, then Hamas refuses — or the other way around. It’s all a game, and we, the people, are the ones paying the price.” Islamic Jihad says Trump’s Gaza plan ‘a formula for igniting the region’ [IsraelTimes] The Islamic Jihad terror group slams US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war, saying it would fuel further aggression against Palestinians. “It is a recipe for continued aggression against the Palestinian people. Through this, Israel is attempting — via the United States — to impose what it could not achieve through war,” the group says in a statement. “Therefore, we consider the American-Israeli declaration a formula for igniting the region.” Report: Hamas received the American plan and promised to examine it ‘responsibly’ [IsraelTimes] Qatari channel Al Jazeera reports, citing a diplomatic source, that Qatar and Egypt conveyed to Hamas the White House plan to end the war, and that the Hamas delegation promised to examine the proposal “responsibly.” [X]
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