“An agreement has been reached regarding the issue of weapons (…) Additionally, an agreement has been made on a gradual withdrawal” of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, said a Hamas official. The source also stated that the Islamist movement is counting on mediators and the “Peace Council” to compel Israel to adhere to the terms of the agreement.
Earlier in the night, Trump announced via his online platform Truth Social that the Peace Council he established had reached an agreement on the “full disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups” in Gaza. Negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have been ongoing in Egypt for several weeks. The initial agreement came into effect in October and was intended to end the conflict in the Gaza Strip.
According to a source within Hamas and a diplomatic source familiar with the negotiations, the weapons are to be transferred to the National Committee for the Governance of Gaza (NCAG). This is a governing body composed of Palestinian technocrats that will manage daily life in Gaza during the transition period. The operation is to be carried out in cooperation with an international “stabilisation force”.
Israël has not signed the agreement. An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that “the Peace Council’s disarmament proposal does not meet Jerusalem’s demands regarding the full demilitarisation of Gaza.” The newspaper concluded: “Despite Trump’s optimistic message, it is therefore unclear how the agreement will take shape.”
Israeli media appeared largely unanimous in the assessment that, in any case, there is little chance that Netanyahu’s government will agree—prior to the late-October elections—to what Trump announced on Truth Social.
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