Trump, Netanyahu agree to Gaza peace plan; Hamas not given a copy, official says

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that they have agreed on a plan to end the war in Gaza, but, according to Hamas officials, the group has not received a copy of the proposal.

Trump's 20-point plan, released by the White House, calls for all hostilities to immediately end, a swap of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, a staged Israeli troop withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave, Hamas disarmament and a transitional government led by an international body.

Trump would chair an international "board of peace" to govern and reconstruct the Gaza Strip as part of the plan, which does not require people to leave Gaza and calls for the war to end immediately if both sides accept it.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Netanyahu, Trump said that it is time for Palestinian militant group, Hamas, to accept the 20-point peace proposal regarding the future of Gaza that he and Netanyahu agreed to.

"We're not quite finished," Trump said. "We have to get Hamas, but I think they're going to be able to do that. So now it's time for Hamas to accept the terms of the plan that we've put forward today."

Trump said Israel would have the "full backing" of the US to take steps to defeat Hamas if the group doesn't accept the proposed peace deal.

"I support your plan to end the war in Gaza, which achieves our war aims," Netanyahu said.

Shortly after Trump and Netanyahu's news conference, in which neither took questions from reporters, Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said that the group has not yet received a copy of Trump's Gaza peace plan.

The official made the remarks in an interview with Al Jazeera Mubasher TV.

A senior Hamas official, Taher a-Nunu, told Al Araby TV on Monday that the group had not received a copy of the plan nor was it involved in its drafting, thehill.com reported on Monday.

At a United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question Monday morning, Fu Cong, China's permanent representative to the UN, said "the country with special influence on Israel" must assume its corresponding responsibilities in earnest.

Fu did not name the country.

"We must take robust action to de-escalate tensions in the West Bank," the Chinese envoy said. "We must act with utmost urgency to end the conflict in Gaza."

He also called for efforts to revitalize the two-State solution with a firm resolve.

Fu noted that after nearly two years of violence, siege and blockade, more than 66,000 Gazans have lost their lives, and more than 2 million are struggling in an "unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe".

Currently, as Israel presses ahead with its plan to take over the Gaza City, countless innocent civilians are dying every day, he added.

"China reiterates that attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure is unacceptable, weaponizing humanitarian supplies is unacceptable, and violating international law and international humanitarian law is equally unacceptable," Fu said.

"Together with the international community, China stands ready to push for an immediate end to the fighting in Gaza, alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe, implement the two-State solution, and advance a comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the question of Palestine, to make greater contributions to the peace and stability in the Middle East," the ambassador said.

As humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsened, pluralities of Americans — including self-described Democrats and Independents — think the United States is providing Israel with too much support and military aid in its war against Hamas, according to a survey report released on Sept 18.

The 2025 Chicago Council Survey, conducted in July, found that 53 percent Democrats now say the US supports Israel too much. That percentage increased by 13 percentage points from the 2024 polling on the issue.

Conversely, more Republicans — 47 percent, a sharp increase from 23 percent in 2024 — now believe that the US strikes the right balance in its support.

Despite cutting billions of dollars in foreign assistance and pulling back from several international organizations under the auspices of his "America First" agenda, Trump has bolstered US military, economic, and diplomatic support for Israel since returning to the Oval Office, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs said in a survey report on its website.