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Netanyahu Rejects Gaza Withdrawal Before Hamas Disarms
Can the ceasefire move forward without a verified weapons handoff?
Can the ceasefire move forward without a verified weapons handoff?
Gaza peace talks have moved from broad ceasefire promises to a hard fight over enforcement, with the main issue now being who verifies that has actually disarmed before Israel pulls back or reconstruction begins. The US is trying to build a monitoring system around the deal, while Israel is insisting on full, real and is under pressure to turn its commitments into verifiable action.
The latest reporting said no or would happen before Hamas was disarmed throughout Gaza. That tied rebuilding and Israeli force movements directly to the sequencing of weapons destruction. The plan remained alive, but its success now depended on whether the and process could be accepted in practice.
Reporting also said the sides agreed to a deconfliction or monitoring mechanism to handle violations and address Israeli security concerns. The mechanism was meant to reduce the risk of while the weapons transfer and was being built. It was one of the first concrete safeguards to emerge from the talks.
Reported terms said would hand over weapons for destruction under supervision from a Palestinian technocratic government and an . The sequence placed before any Israeli redeployment or reconstruction. That made postwar governance part of the disarmament machinery, not a separate track.
Israeli and international reporting said Kushner and Netanyahu discussed using an to verify Hamas disarmament. The idea was to supervise the handover of weapons and give Israel confidence that decommissioning was real. It showed Washington trying to build an enforcement mechanism around the agreement.
Reporting from the said Hamas had already agreed two weeks earlier to hand over its weapons to a . Kushner pressed for a process that could be verified, not just promised, and for clear limits on any future Hamas role in Gaza. This turned the deal into an test.
Jared Kushner held a rare meeting with Hamas leaders in Egypt to advance the . Reported discussions focused on moving Hamas from a political acceptance of the plan toward and an end to its . Hamas reiterated its commitment while Kushner pushed for concrete steps.
Netanyahu publicly rejected the and again said the would not withdraw before Hamas was disarmed. His language stressed that all weapons had to be covered, not just heavy arms. That made enforcement, verification, and the central issue in the talks.
Benjamin Netanyahu repeated that Israel would not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas was completely . He said any pullback had to wait for genuine, not symbolic, disarmament and that Israel was speaking with US officials about the issue. The comments sharply narrowed the space for any phased deal.
The US-led said Israeli forces would not move beyond the until Hamas had fully . The statement linked withdrawal to disarmament completion, including heavy weapons, light weapons, and . It set the tone for a more technical fight over enforcement rather than broad ceasefire diplomacy.