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Trump sets Sunday night deadline for Hamas to accept Gaza peace plan

US President Donald Trump. [AFP]

US President Donald Trump has given Hamas until 2200 GMT on Sunday to accept his 20-point plan for peace in Gaza, warning the Palestinian militant group faced "all hell" if it did not agree to the terms.

The US leader set the deadline -- which would fall at 1:00 a.m. Monday in Gaza -- after an official for the Islamist movement told AFP earlier on Friday that the group still needed time to study the proposal to end nearly two years of devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

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