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President Donald Trump has issued a time limit to Hamas, calling for them to accept a American settlement for Gaza otherwise face intense consequences.

Through a message on his online account on the end of the week, the President announced that an deal must be finalized by 18:00 Washington time (10 PM GMT) on Sunday.

This outlined agreement involves an prompt halt to hostilities and the return within a short period of twenty surviving Israel hostages kept by the group—as well as the bodies of individuals thought to be dead—for a large number of imprisoned Palestinians.

Regional intermediaries are understood to be encouraging Hamas for a positive reply to the offer, but a high-ranking Hamas representative has suggested that the militant group is probable to reject it.

"In case this LAST CHANCE settlement is not secured, all HELL, like nobody has ever experienced, will erupt against the group. WE WILL ENSURE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST NO MATTER WHAT," the President wrote in the social media post.

Mediators have made contact with the chief of the group's combat unit in Gaza, who has suggested that he disagrees to the recent US halt initiative, based on reports.

Sources indicate that a portion of the group's political wing in the Gulf state are open to agreeing to the proposal with adjustments—but have discovered their authority limited as they do not have command over the captives detained by the faction.

Another stumbling block for a number of in Hamas is that the agreement demands them to release each and every the hostages over the initial three-day period of the ceasefire—surrendering their primary bargaining chip.

There are believed to be forty-eight hostages presently being kept in the Palestinian region by the militant group, only 20 of whom are believed to be living.

Israel's defense forces launched a campaign in Gaza in reaction to the Hamas-led assault on Israeli territory on a previous date, in which about over a thousand people were killed and two hundred fifty-one others were taken hostage.

A minimum of sixty-six thousand two hundred eighty-eight residents have been fatally injured in Israel's strikes in Gaza from that point, according to the region's Hamas-controlled health ministry.