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10/03/2025October 3, 2025
Trump’s ultimatum to Hamas: Agree to deal ‘or be hunted down, killed’
US President said the Hamas militant group had been “a ruthless and violent threat, for many years, in the Middle East!”
“They have killed (and made lives unbearably miserable), culminating with the October 7th MASSACRE, in Israel,” Trump wrote.
The Hamas-led attacks in southern Israel of October 7, 2023, killed nearly 1,200 people and saw 251 more taken hostage.
“As retribution for the October 7th attack on civilization, more than 25,000 Hamas ‘soldiers’ have already been killed,” Trump said, adding that those that remained “are surrounded and MILITARILY TRAPPED.”
Trump said that he only needed to give the word “‘GO’ for their lives to be extinguished.”
The US president said members “will be hunted down, and killed” if the group did not agree to his peace proposal.
Trump also reiterated that the plan includes the release of all remaining hostages. There are 48 hostages still in captivity — Israeli officials believe that about 20 are alive.
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Skip next section Situation facing mothers and newborns ‘never been worse’ — UNICEF
10/03/2025October 3, 2025
Situation facing mothers and newborns ‘never been worse’ — UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that mothers and newborn babies are facing dire conditions in , as the Nasser hospital in the south is becoming increasingly overwhelmed by patients who fled from northern Gaza.
“The situation for mothers and newborns in Gaza has never been worse. In Nasser hospital, we’re seeing hospital corridors lined with women who’ve just given birth,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva via video link from Gaza.
Elder described new mothers and newborn babies lying on the hospital floor and reported seeing three premature babies sharing a single supply of oxygen.
“They shared 20 minutes each. The other two children cry while the third child gets that oxygen for 20 minutes,” Elder said.
Elder said there was no safe space in the south of the Gaza Strip, and that designated safe zones were “places of death.”
“The notion of a safe zone in the south is farcical,” Elder.
Palestinians have been repeatedly urged by Israel to move to a “humanitarian area” in Al-Mawasi, where aid is provided.
Elder said Al-Mawasi “is now one of the most densely populated places on Earth. It’s grotesquely overcrowded and has been stripped of the most basic essentials of survival.”
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10/03/2025October 3, 2025
Activists says all Global Sumud Flotilla vessels intercepted
Organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla said the Israeli military had intercepted the last boat that had been attempting to reach on Friday.
This comes a day after most of the vessels were stopped with , including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.
In a statement, the Global Sumud Flotilla said Israeli naval forces had “illegally intercepted all 42 of our vessels — each carrying humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the determination to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza.”
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it was making arrangements to deport the activists, journalists, lawmakers and lawyers who made up the convoy.
“Procedures are under way to wrap up the Hamas-Sumud provocation and to finalize the deportation of the participants in this sham,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said.
“Attached are photos of Greta Thunberg and other members of this provocation while arriving to Israel. All are safe and in good health,” the ministry said in a post on X.
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Skip next section Trump gives Hamas new deadline, issues threat via social media
10/03/2025October 3, 2025
Trump gives Hamas new deadline, issues threat via social media
US President has set Sunday, 6 p.m. Washington time (2200 UTC/GMT), as the deadline for the militant group Hamas to accept a deal to end the war in Gaza or face “all hell.”
“An Agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time,” Trump wrote on his Truth Media platform.
“Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas. THERE WILL BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER,” Trump wrote.
The US president unveiled the plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week.
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Welcome to our coverage
Welcome to DW’s coverage of , Israel and the broader Middle East.
US President Donald Trump issued a Sunday deadline to the militant group to accept his proposal for peace or risk being “hunted down and killed.”
UNICEF reports that the situation for women and newborns in Gaza has “never been worse,” with a spokesman describing desperate scenes in hospital corridors.
Follow along as DW brings you the latest reports, explainers and analysis on developments across the Middle East.
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