This is a statement issued by the Palestine House of Freedom (Dar al-Hurriya), an advocacy organization for Palestinian equal rights located in Washington DC:
How can there be a meaningful discussion of peace in the absence of justice and accountability? How can negotiations be taken seriously in the absence of real representation of the people who have endured the dispossession, occupation, and genocide? These people, the Palestinian people are excluded from shaping the very plan that claims to determine their future.
That is precisely what Trump’s 15-point so-called Peace Plan represents.
This is not a peace plan. It is a framework for preserving the conditions that have made peace impossible.
The plan contains no meaningful mechanism for holding Israel accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It says nothing about the Palestinian people’s right to return to their homes and their land, it does not mention the right of Palestinians to defend themselves.
These are not privileges to be granted or withheld; they are fundamental rights recognized by international law.
The question of disarmament must also be confronted honestly. Israel, not the Palestinian people, possesses a vastly superior military and continues to kill Palestinians indiscriminately. Israel continues to occupy Palestinian land and expand Jewish only settlements, while Israeli officials continue to speak openly about killing and annexing Gaza.
Palestinians must have guarantees that their people, communities, and land from will be protected.
The plan is overwhelmingly focused on Gaza while offering no substantive framework for addressing Palestinian rights in general. Its references to a future political path toward Palestinian self-determination and statehood are vague and unenforceable. There is no concrete framework for ending the apartheid regime and resolving the broader question of Palestinian self-determination.
This Gaza-only approach is not incidental. By isolating Gaza from the broader Palestinian struggle, the plan fragments the Palestinian people and entrenches the system of apartheid across historic Palestine.
Even setting aside its glaring failures on justice and accountability, Israel’s conduct has already demonstrated the weakness of relying on its stated commitments.
Since October 2025, Israel has repeatedly violated the Gaza ceasefire agreement. With airstrikes, shelling, and shootings Israel killed more than 1,200 Palestinians, most of them children, women, and elderly people, and wounding more than 4,000 others.
The humanitarian reality remains devastating. Most of Gaza’s population remains displaced, with many families living in overcrowded tents or makeshift shelters amid repeated displacement. Access to clean water and sanitation remains is practically nonexistent.
Gaza’s health system remains in ruins, with critical shortages of medicines and medical supplies. Even medical evacuation is practically impossible.
Gaza’s population remains increasingly dependent on aid – which is restricted by Israel – while denied the ability to safely rebuild.
This is not simply a humanitarian crisis requiring more aid; it is a crisis sustained by lack of political courage on the part of the United States and Europe.
There can be no roadmap to peace when justice, accountability, apartheid, Palestinian rights, and Palestinian voices are excluded from the conversation.
Peace requires justice, accountability, and an unconditional end to the apartheid regime. It requires that the Palestinian people have a meaningful voice in determining their future.
Lacking these principles, Trump’s 15-point plan is merely a blueprint for managing, and ultimately preserving, the very conditions that make peace impossible.
So why does Netanyahu reject it? Elections are coming up and it makes him look good to say “NO!” to the president of the United States.
Furthermore, he says, “As long as I am PM there will be no Palestinian State.
