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Negotiators have reportedly made contact with the head of Hamas's armed faction in the territory, who expressed disagreement with the new American-backed ceasefire initiative.

Izz al-Din al-Haddad is considered to regard the framework as a strategy to eliminate the organization, regardless of the faction accepts it, and is thus determined to continue fighting.

The 20-point plan proposed by the American administration to end the conflict—previously approved by Israel—requires that the group surrender weapons and play no future role in governing the coastal enclave.

Certain members of the group's political wing in Doha are said to be open to accepting the plan with adjustments, but their authority is restricted as they do not control the hostages held by the group.

It is believed that 48 hostages are still held, with only twenty believed to be surviving.

Another major obstacle for some within the group is the demand to hand over every hostages within the first 72 hours of the truce, which would deprive them of their primary leverage.

Despite the US president's guarantee that Israeli forces would abide by the terms, there is widespread skepticism within the faction that Israel would not resume hostilities after the captives are received—especially after the previous failed targeting of Hamas leadership in Qatar last month.

Several faction leaders also reportedly oppose the deployment of a temporary multinational peacekeeping unit to Gaza, which they see as a different type of occupation.

Additionally, a map of the proposed gradual Israeli troop withdrawals from Gaza features what is referred to as a "safe area" along Gaza's borders with the Sinai and the Israeli border.

It is unclear how this area would be administered, but if Israel are participating, it is expected to be a source of dispute.

In addition, since endorsing the proposal on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appeared to retreat on several aspects.

In a video posted on social media, he stated that the IDF would be permitted to stay in parts of the strip and that the government would "forcibly resist" the creation of a Palestinian state.

This directly contradicts the American framework, which stipulates that troops would withdraw completely "save for a security perimeter deployment that will stay until the area is fully secure from any resurgent terror threat."

The proposal also states that after completed, there could be a "credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood."

The group has previously stated that it would not surrender arms until a sovereign Palestinian state is established.

The Israeli military launched its operation in the territory in retaliation to the militant assault on Israeli communities on October 7, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

Based on data from the Hamas-run health ministry, no fewer than sixty-six thousand two hundred twenty-five people have been fatally injured in Israeli attacks in the enclave since the conflict began.