Israel to withdraw from Gaza only after Hamas disarms, says US-led Board of Peace

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The meeting took place days after politicians in Israel voiced opposition to the disarmament agreement announced by US President Donald Trump last Thursday.
39% : Hamas has maintained that it will not move forward with the deal unless Israel fulfils its own obligations under it.
39% : The military campaign Israel launched in October 2023 has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in Gaza in total.
37% : Israel has continued strikes despite an October 2025 ceasefire, killing more than 1,200 Palestinians since then, including over 36 after the disarmament deal was announced.
37% : Mladenov criticised the weekend's strikes without naming Israel directly, writing that lasting peace remains achievable if all sides commit to it.
35% : In a social media post following the talks, the Board of Peace, which Trump set up in January to run Gaza's administration after Israel's war, described its objective as full weapons decommissioning across the Strip alongside a shift from armed to civilian governance.
35% : Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye, who mediated the disarmament agreement, released a joint statement condemning Israel's targeting of civilians and healthcare facilities as a violation of international law.
30% : Israel's reversal comes despite pressure from Trump to finalise the deal and arrives months before an Israeli election in which Netanyahu's government faces demands from its base to show it achieved total victory in Gaza.
23% : Netanyahu's office said that ahead of the meeting that the publicly released version of the agreement "does not reflect Israel's positions" and noted that Israel had conveyed its concerns to Washington DC.

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