The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) released a statement on 2 October calling for an urgent meeting aimed at reaching a unified Palestinian stance on the 20-point Gaza “peace plan” announced by US President Donald Trump.
“The top priority at this stage is to halt the holocaust being inflicted on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, who have made and continue to make enormous sacrifices in defense of their land and identity and in loyalty to their national cause,” the PFLP stated.
“The Palestinian people face a historic responsibility that calls for a swift and unified stance from all national forces,” it added.
The PFLP said it was consulting with several Palestinian factions on the idea of holding an urgent national meeting.
The meeting would aim to issue “a collective and unified position, avoiding individualism or evasion of national responsibility.”
The resistance movement also called for a joint Palestinian, Arab, and international effort to stop the genocidal war.
It said there was a “necessity to reach a unified position on the American proposal, and the political and existential risks contained in some of its provisions, which could be exploited to reshape the situation at the expense of established national rights.”
The plan calls for an immediate halt to the fighting in Gaza and the release of all Israeli captives, dead and alive, within 72 hours.
In response, Israel will free 250 prisoners serving life sentences, along with 1,700 Palestinians from Gaza detained after 7 October.
It also envisions an Israeli withdrawal toward the perimeters of Gaza, which Tel Aviv has rejected.
Hamas is currently reviewing the plan and is not expected to officially respond for another few days.
“Hamas is keen to end the war and end the genocide and it will respond in the way that serves the higher interests of the Palestinian people,” a Palestinian source told Reuters on Wednesday, but warned that the proposal “is a Netanyahu plan articulated by Trump.”
“Accepting the plan is a disaster, rejecting it is another, there are only bitter choices here,” the source added.
Hamas is asking for more time to review the plan, sources told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The resistance movement also told mediators about its reservations to parts of the plan, including “the stipulation that it disarm and destroy its weapons,” as well as the demand that it release all captives within 72 hours – which “would be difficult.”
Hamas has “lost contact in recent weeks with some other militant groups holding a number of them,” the sources added.
Hamas officials met with mediators in Doha this week and argued that “Trump’s plan leaves Palestinians without a credible path to statehood and includes several loopholes that would permit Israel to resume the war.”
The plan allows Israeli forces to maintain a “perimeter presence” near Gaza. Yet Tel Aviv has vowed not to withdraw at all. It also envisions a path toward Palestinian statehood, which Israel categorically opposes.
The plan does not clarify the sequencing of steps beyond the initial ceasefire and prisoner release, and crucial questions, such as who funds the rebuilding, who enforces disarmament, how aid will be distributed in practice, and where displaced Palestinians live during reconstruction, all remain unanswered.
“If Hamas refuses [the proposal], [US President Donald] Trump will give Israel full backing to complete the military operation and eliminate them,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on 30 September.
Trump said on the same day that Hamas has three to four days to respond, otherwise it faces a “bleak fate.”
Qatar, Egypt, and Turkiye are reportedly pressing Hamas to accept. According to Axios, Doha informed Hamas that it cannot secure a better deal for them.