Qatar, Egypt and Turkey have urged Hamas to give a positive response to US President Donald Trump’s proposed Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal, Axios reported Tuesday, as separate reports indicated the terror group considers the offer unjust and is likely to reject it.

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani and Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, two of the mediators in the talks, met with Hamas leaders in Doha on Monday night, and again on Tuesday with Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin also in attendance, Axios reported, citing two sources with knowledge of the talks.

During the Monday meeting, al-Thani told Hamas leaders that he would be unable to secure a better deal for them, that he was confident Trump was committed to ending the war and that this was a strong enough guarantee for Hamas, according to one of the sources cited by Axios.

Hamas responded that it would study the proposal in good faith, the source said, echoing Qatar’s statement on Monday that the terror group had vowed to examine the offer responsibly.

The proposed deal enjoys the support of Western, Arab and Muslim nations, as well as the Palestinian Authority. Russia and the Vatican also extended their support for the deal on Tuesday, as anti-Israel US activist groups rejected it.

Trump presented the plan on Monday in a joint press conference at the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who endorsed the proposal. On Tuesday, Trump said Hamas had “three or four days” to respond and that it would “pay in hell” if it did not agree.

The proposal would release the remaining 48 hostages within 72 hours. In exchange, Israel would release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences; 1,700 Gazans, including all women and children, detained since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza; and 15 bodies of deceased Gazans for every body of an Israeli hostage.

The proposal would also require a three-phase Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, disarm Hamas, demilitarize Gaza, ensure uninhibited humanitarian aid to the Strip and hand the enclave over to an international transitional government without Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has refused to disarm absent Palestinian statehood, which Israel rejects.

However, conflicting reports emerged on how Hamas was reacting to the proposal, particularly on the stance of the Hamas military leadership inside Gaza.

The BBC, which cited a senior Hamas official, said Hamas also opposes the so-called International Stabilization Force, which the terror group “views as a new form of occupation.”

The Hamas official was quoted as saying the offer “serves Israel’s interests” and “ignores those of the Palestinian people,” and that the terror group was likely to reject it.

According to the BBC, “a key sticking point” for Hamas is the requirement that it hand over all the hostages in the first 72 hours, since that would deprive the terror group of its only bargaining chip.

The outlet said Gaza-based Hamas chief Izz al-Din Haddad “is thought to be determined to keep fighting,” and that Hamas leaders outside of Gaza have recently been sidelined in discussions since they do not control the hostages.

A separate report in Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat quoted Hamas sources as saying Trump’s offer “leans to one side and creates injustice,” serving Israeli rather than Palestinian interests.

However, the terror group would still examine the offer “positively,” said the sources cited by Asharq Al-Awsat. These sources contradicted the official speaking to the BBC, instead saying that Hamas sources inside the Strip told the newspaper that, in conversation with the terror group’s leadership abroad, Hamas officials in Gaza had stressed the importance of responding positively to the plan in order to bring an end to the war. According to them, the group’s military wing also agrees with this approach.

The sources added that no clear date has been set for delivering Hamas’s response to the plan, but mediators have asked the group to act quickly and provide an answer within about two days.

According to the sources, while the points contained in the plan are outlined at length and in detail, they contain no real guarantees for implementing the terms of the agreement.

The sources said there may be a need for adjustments regarding the timeline for releasing hostages, including those who are dead, since time would be required to locate the burial sites of the slain captives within the Strip.

The Kremlin said Tuesday that it hoped Trump’s proposal would be implemented, and a Russian diplomat offered further support in a call with a senior official of the Palestinian Authority.

In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “Russia always supports and welcomes any efforts by Trump aimed at ending the tragedy that is currently unfolding.”

He added: “And, of course, we want this plan to be implemented and for it to help bring events in the Middle East to a peaceful conclusion.”

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin later told Palestinian Authority Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh by telephone that Russia supported “any steps that will facilitate an end to the bloodshed,” the Russian foreign ministry said.

“Hope was expressed that successful implementation of the new US initiative will allow for a sustainable ceasefire in Gaza, the liberation of hostages and detainees and unhindered supplies of humanitarian aid into the area,” the ministry said.

Moscow, it said, stood by a solution which provided for the “creation of an independent State of Palestine coexisting in peace and harmony with Israel.”

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday also praised Trump’s plan and expressed hope that Hamas would endorse it.

“There are very interesting elements” in the plan, the pope was quoted as saying by Italy’s ANSA news agency. “I hope Hamas will accept it within the established timeframe.”

“From all sides, people are saying, ‘Let’s hope that there will not be violence, that people are respected.’ That’s very important,” the pope said to reporters as he left Castel Gandolfo summer residence, which he has taken to visiting regularly.

Meanwhile, US anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian groups slammed Trump’s proposal, and US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American in the US Congress, wrote on social media: “Trump and War Criminal Netanyahu, perpetrators of the genocide, do not get to decide the future of Gaza.”

National Students for Justice in Palestine and the US Palestinian Community Network shared a message on social media that says, “Normalization is never the answer.”

“The Palestinian people alone determine their path to liberation, not Trump, not Israel,” the statement said.

Nerdeen Kiswani, the head of the leading activist group in New York, Within Our Lifetime, said the plan was “not about peace, it’s a blueprint for surrender and foreign control.”

“The deal would dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, end its political rule and ensure Gaza never poses a challenge to Israel,” she said.

The far-left activist group Code Pink, which often protests Israel, said, “This is not a peace plan. It’s a plan for permanent occupation” — though the plan unveiled by the White House explicitly says “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza.”

Another far-left anti-Israel group, the People’s Forum, said the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu “reinforced US complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people,” while calling to “end the genocide.”

The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace did not respond to a request for comment. Other groups have not issued any comment, and no pro-Palestinian activist groups appear to have voiced support for the agreement.