{"id":591211,"date":"2026-02-15T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/591211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T07:05:16","slug":"hamas-disarmament-could-begin-as-early-as-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/591211\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas disarmament could begin as early as March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Hamas disarmament could begin as early as March 2026, according to two sources in US President Donald Trump&#8217;s Gaza Board of Peace who spoke to KAN News.<\/p>\n<p>The disarmament process will begin once the new technocratic government takes over from Hamas in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-886602\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza Strip<\/a>, the Saturday night KAN report added.<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Council is expected to meet in late February in Washington, DC, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-886625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Minister Gideon Sa&#8217;ar<\/a> representing Israel at the summit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Board of Peace initiative was originally designed with the intent of bringing the war in Gaza to a close, but Trump later said that it would resolve conflicts globally.<\/p>\n<p>Preparations have already begun in the Gaza Strip for the transition of power, per the KAN report, which added that Israel has begun building IDF bases in Israel-controlled territories in the Strip. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886603\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">IDF<\/a> has also begun arming anti-Hamas militias, such as Abu Shabab, according to KAN, citing foreign reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to a Thursday Facebook post from Duhine, the anti-Hamas militia has begun dismantling the tunnels, which they consider to be the most impactful weapon Hamas possesses. &#8220;Afterwards,&#8221; he added, &#8220;we&#8217;ll destroy weapon manufacturing, rockets, and finally move onto guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Earlier this week, KAN also confirmed that Abu Shabab, also known as the Popular Forces, would be involved in the security protocols surrounding the recently-reopened Rafah Crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Amichai Stein, Sam Halpern, and Tzvi Jasper contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamas disarmament could begin as early as March 2026, according to two sources in US President Donald Trump&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":591212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255575,4526,232739,4527,99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-591211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-abu-shabab-militia","9":"tag-gaza-strip","10":"tag-gazan-board-of-peace","11":"tag-hamas","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116073380480620669","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}