Hamas is currently studying the plan of US President Donald Trump to end the war in the Gaza Strip, but the discussion may take several days, AFP reported on Tuesday, referring to two sources close to the Palestinian terrorist movement. Meanwhile, Qatar diplomacy announced that there will be a meeting of intermediaries on Tuesday, including representatives of Turkey with representatives of Hamas. The result of negotiations is not yet known. Referring to its source, CBS News said Hamas was inclined to accept the proposal.
On Monday, the White House published a twenty -point peace plan, which counts, among other things, with the calm of weapons within a few days and to release all Israeli hostages at once. The proposal after negotiations with Trump in the White House was publicly supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, now waiting for Hamas. According to Reuters, Trump said he had about three or four days to answer, otherwise he would face the consequences.
“Hamas today starts a number of consultations within his political and military leadership, both inside and abroad,” said an AFP source that spoke on condition of maintaining anonymity. “Given their complexity, the discussion could take several days, mainly due to the coordination of communication between leadership and other movements, especially after Israeli aggression in Doha,” the AFP source said, referring to the Israeli air strike from September, directed against the leadership of the Movement in the Catarian capital. He added that the group will formulate an answer that will represent the reaction of Hamas and “other resistance movements”.
The Peace Plan on Monday criticized the radical movement of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which in October 2023 participated in the terrorist attack on Israel. According to him, the proposal is a recipe for continuing aggression against Palestinians. A representative of the People’s Front for the liberation of Palestine (PFLP), another of the smaller radical organizations in the Gaza and Hamas zone in the war, then said on Tuesday, according to The Times of Israel, that Trump’s plan is “a recipe for war and stretching, not to end”. According to him, it is also an effort to separate the Gaza zone from the Palestinian territorial unit.
According to AFP, a spokesman for the Qatar Foreign Ministry, according to AFP, said that on Tuesday in Doha will take place on Trump’s plan with representatives of Hamas in the presence of Turkey representatives. “The delegation of Hamas negotiators promised to study the plan responsibly,” said Ansari, adding that the heads of Egypt and Turkish intelligence are currently staying in the capital. “It is too early to predict the answers, but we are really optimistic, because this plan, as we have already said, is a global plan,” the Agency quoted.
The US news station CBS News, referring to an unnamed source of the “close process”, said that Hamas and other Palestinian factions are inclined to adopt the US proposal conditions. According to the CBS report, Hamas will present their response to Qatar and Egyptian leaders on Wednesday.
Reuters recalls that Hamas has not participated in the negotiations that resulted in Trump’s plan. One of the points of the proposal, among other things, calls on members of this militant organization for disarming, which Hamas has so far refused. However, the movement is now facing extraordinary pressure to adopt the proposal conditions, even from the Arab countries, when Trump’s initiative was welcomed by Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Egypt.
Israeli television Channel 12 on Tuesday’s appeal to high -ranking US officials wrote that Washington is not ready to accept significant changes concerning the proposal. It is only open to limited modifications of technical nature, such as the exact schedule of the Israeli withdrawal from most of the Gaza Strip or the exact way Hamas will be disarmed.
“Israel is behind the proposal. Negotiation is not open with the exception of certain technical questions,” the source from the Israeli side told TV in a similar spirit.
The twenty -point plan is based on Hamas, within 72 hours of the public consent of Israel, will pass all hostages, while Israel will release nearly 2000 imprisoned Palestinians. In the Gaza Strip, the Cabinet of the Palestinian Technocrats is to be ruled in the future under the supervision of the International Committee led by Trump. The plan also assumes the creation of an international stabilization force in which the US will work with Arab countries and which should take responsibility for safety in the zone. Members of Hamas who wish for it should be provided to go to countries that will be willing to accept them; Other members of the group in the zone will be able to stay if they compose weapons and close to peaceful coexistence.
After Monday’s phone call between Qatar and Israeli Prime Minister, which he also participated in Trump and in which he apologized for Israeli strikes, Katar said that he was ready to continue the mediation efforts to end the conflict. This was confirmed to AFP today by a spokesman for Qatar diplomacy.
“The security guarantees and obligations provided by President Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister were very clear,” including “the commitment of the US President that Qatar will never be attacked again,” Ansari said. He added that Qatar is satisfied with these guarantees and that he also received a commitment directly from Israel that he would no longer be attacked in Qatar.
