Hamas has "three or four" days to respond to the US peace plan, says President Donald Trump on Tuesday, the day after he presented the plan together with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
We are just waiting for Hamas, he says to reporters and warns of "a very sad end" if the movement rejects the plan.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres says in a statement that "all parties" must join Trump's plan.
He (Guterres) repeats his call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, says UN spokesperson Farhan Haq.
Meet for talks
Hamas is going through the proposal "responsibly", says Majed al-Ansari, spokesperson for Qatar's Foreign Ministry, to the news agency AFP. During Tuesday, Hamas representatives will meet with Qatari and Turkish representatives for talks, according to al-Ansari.
Representatives of the extremist movement are said to have received the document in Doha late on Monday. Due to logistical problems, the discussions may take several days, says an AFP source close to the terror-stamped Hamas.
According to American CBS News source, who is said to have insight into the process, Hamas is inclined to fairly quickly accept the terms of the plan. The source claims that a response is likely to come as early as tomorrow, Wednesday.
20 points
To Reuters says at the same time another source close to Hamas that Donald Trump's peace plan is "completely biased" towards Israel and contains "impossible conditions" intended to eliminate the movement.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he had approved the plan. The 20-point proposal would mean an almost immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. All remaining hostages would be released and a temporary technocratic government, supervised by a "peace council" led by Trump, would be introduced in Gaza.
