Horrible news today.. Trump just got Hamas to agree to disarm and DoW is taking over

Hamas agreed to give up its weapons in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, Donald Trump announced.

The US president said an agreement had been reached on Thursday evening, hailing it as a “major milestone” for his board of peace.

Under the proposal, Hamas would first hand over its heavy weapons to a transitional Palestinian body to be stored and decommissioned.

The group would also be expected to give up terror infrastructure such as weapons manufacturing facilities and tunnel plans.

The deal leaves the surrender of personal weapons until last.

A board of peace official said they would be “dealt with” by Palestinian law enforcement, who would be expected to police the strip under the authority of the board-appointed National Council for the Administration of Gaza, aided by an International Stabilisation Force (ISF) of foreign troops.
Mr Trump also said the agreement included the complete disarmament of “all other armed groups”, which it assumed to mean various “clans”, some of which are backed by Israel.

Based on the premise of “zero trust”, each stage of the plan is supposed to be verifiable and should be accompanied by Israeli withdrawal.
But hours after the deal was agreed, an Israeli air strike wounded several Palestinians in Gaza.

Under the ceasefire agreement of last October, the IDF was given control of about 53 per cent of Gaza but has since expanded its territory to include an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of the territory.

“An agreement has been reached regarding the issue of weapons. Furthermore, an agreement has been reached on a gradual withdrawal of [Israeli forces] from the strip,” a Hamas official said.

Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas negotiating team, told Al Jazeera. “We will not take ?any action regarding disarmament prior to Israel’s withdrawal from the Strip.”

This appeared to contradict Mr Trump’s statement, which said: “As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw…”

However, an official familiar with the negotiations told The Telegraph that Hamas understood “disarmament” to refer to the end of the process.

By contrast, “decommissioning” would involve Palestinian security forces storing the weapons, meaning that if Israel reneged on its commitments under the deal, Hamas could take back the weapons.

“The idea, in theory, is that all this can be reversed. That way you can agree to a process which is staged and verifiable,” the official said.
It is understood, however, that precise practical details of how and where the weapons would be stored have yet to be agreed, but under the agreement they could not be transferred to Israel.

The UK, principally through Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, has been a strong behind-the-scenes proponent of the “Northern Ireland-model” of decommissioning.

Israel has not yet commented formally on the agreement, but a US official said the Jewish state was “very sceptical” about Hamas complying.

Israeli officials were reported on Friday as saying that the country did not agree with the “shape” of the agreement, and had conveyed its concerns to Sir Tony Blair, who is working for Mr Trump’s board of peace on the issue.

The deal also depends on the creation of a Palestinian police force.
However, a Western official said that while much of the preparatory work had been done in identifying recruits, Israel was dragging its feet in allowing training to take place.

There is also huge uncertainty over the make-up of Mr Trump’s ISF.
Last week, Israel said it would allow a small contingent, probably consisting of Moroccan troops, into the Strip.

But so far it is believed there has not been anywhere near sufficient commitment of troops by supporting countries.

“At the moment the agreement relies on organisations that have not been set up yet,” an official with knowledge of the negotiations told The Telegraph.

“I wouldn’t expect anything to happen in the next few weeks – it will mostly be arguments over the wording that has just been agreed.

“There are many potential points of failure in the plan.”
Hamas has been resisting calls to disarm since the ceasefire was imposed in October 2025.

Mr Hamad said the group was making “concessions for the sake of our people in the Gaza Strip, to save them from killing and displacement”.
In recent months, negotiators had reportedly focused on cutting off Hamas’s funding sources. They now believe the mounting financial pressure pushed it to agree to the deal.

“We think we’ve managed to bring Hamas to a place where they can’t say no,” one source involved in the negotiations told Axios before Mr Trump’s announcement on Thursday.

However, a different official close to the negotiations said part of the reason it had taken so long to come to a deal was a lack of clarity from Israel about how it would implement its side of the arrangement.

The extent to which Hamas would be expected to cull its members from medium to lower levels of Gaza’s administration is also believed to have been a sticking point.

Another source said there was speculation Hamas had agreed now in order to “take the heat” out of the Gaza issue in the upcoming Israeli election.

Under the terms of Mr Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, reconstruction can only begin after Hamas disarms.

Sounds good. Iranian cash flow to Hamas drying up, I guess?

Things may settle down for a couple of, maybe even a few years, then they'll be back at it again.

Not a failure on President Trump's part, but the failure of a culture that has been at war with everyone for a thousand years will always be at war with everyone. It's all that they know.

Let's see how the usual suspects find a way to complain about this.

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"Iran is defeated."

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Ah. There's a start.

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Based on the premise of “zero trust”, each stage of the plan is supposed to be verifiable and should be accompanied by Israeli withdrawal. But hours after the deal was agreed, an Israeli air strike wounded several Palestinians in Gaza.

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Why is this always the case over there?

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Donald Trump has announced Hamas will disarm and demilitarise Gaza

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Is this another MOU? Can anyone provide evidence of signed documents, by all parties in this agreement?

Until proven otherwise, it's just more excess gas, courtesy of America's Liar-In-Chief.

yeah and I have some ocean front property in Arizona

Trump should take note of what Israel did to Hamas in order to get here and start doing the same to Iran.

If Iran never looks like this



It will eventually look like this

Hamas should be Israel’s problem, not ours. The longevity of the deal will be like a wet piece of paper.

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Earlier in the day, Israeli media reported that Israel was opposed to a deal that was being discussed with Hamas.

If Israel decides not to withdraw, Trump would be "very disappointed", the official said. The official said the US believes Israel would continue to be a good partner.

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That's why there is reason to be skeptical. If Israel doesn't agree to the deal then it's not really a deal. Just a proposal.

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Hamas should be Israel’s problem, not ours. The longevity of the deal will be like a wet piece of paper.

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This is all part of the "20 Point Peace Plan". It still mostly hinges on the UN, the body that played a huge role in bringing us to this point — and not in a good way. We've already been pressuring the UN Security Council to help force Hamas to disarm with varying degrees of success. Keep in mind that the UN still doesn't recognize Hamas as a terror organization.

The problem is, the peace plan doesn't require any Hamas (or other kown terror group member) to leave Gaza. It just requires a pinky promise not to cause in further shenanigans. Then, there is the International Security Force that is supposed to be the point of the spear in maintaining order in the "Terror Free Zones" of Gaza. It will be manned and, of course, funded by the Moroccan and Ugandan types......the most reliable of the world's countries. To this point, the ISC hasn't made it into Gaza, it is hanging out at a couple of camps — mostly funded by the US — awaiting permission from Israel to enter the area. Fortunately, they've recently been granted very limited access by Israel.