President Donald Trump listens as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago membership, Dec. 29, 2025, in Palm Seaside, Fla.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected President Trump’s 15-point peace plan for Gaza, saying Israeli forces is not going to withdraw from Gaza till Hamas is “genuinely disarmed.”
“We’re speaking about real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament,” he stated at a gathering with authorities ministers Sunday.
Netanyahu’s feedback come simply over every week after President Trump introduced that his Board of Peace had reached a cope with the Palestinian militant group to utterly quit its weapons.
“Right now, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC settlement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all different armed teams in Gaza. It is a monumental step towards lasting PEACE and SECURITY,” Trump wrote on social media in late July.
Below Trump’s proposed peace deal, Board of Peace officers stated Hamas and different militant teams would hand their arms over to a vetted worldwide policing drive.
However a senior Hamas official beforehand informed NPR that the group would solely hand over their weapons if Israel withdrew from components of Gaza first.
The most recent dispute follows an preliminary ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas in October 2025, alongside Trump’s broader 20-point Gaza plan.
That first section of the peace plan halted main preventing, supplied for the discharge of remaining hostages in alternate for some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, elevated humanitarian help, and referred to as for a partial Israeli withdrawal. Extra contentious points – together with Hamas’s disarmament and additional Israeli withdrawals – have been left to later negotiations.
Trump’s new 15-point roadmap, printed on July 31, sought to maneuver these unresolved points ahead. It envisioned Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and Hamas’s disarmament as a part of a phased course of, reasonably than requiring Hamas to totally disarm earlier than Israeli forces started pulling again.
The Board of Peace had already backed Netanyahu on that key level, saying on Aug. 3 that Israeli forces wouldn’t withdraw past the Yellow Line till Hamas’s weapons have been absolutely decommissioned. Netanyahu’s resolution to emphasise his demand once more comes lower than three months earlier than Israel’s Oct. 27 election, with polls displaying his coalition is liable to dropping its majority.
The obvious stalemate comes as Israel nonetheless controls roughly 70% of Gaza, based on Palestinian officers and help companies.
Hamas launched a press assertion Sunday saying it was nonetheless dedicated “to the roadmap agreed upon” within the settlement.
NPR’s Anas Baba contributed to this report from Gaza.
