Netanyahu rejects Board of Peace's Gaza plan: No 'withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed'

Israel is rejecting a 15-point Gaza connection enactment guardant by the Board of Peace, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, declaring that Israeli forces volition not retreat from the enclave until Hamas afloat gives up its weapons.

"Israel rejects the 15-point Gaza papers projected by the Board of Peace," Netanyahu said astatine Sunday's Cabinet meeting. "The IDF volition not transportation retired immoderate withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed."

Israel remains successful discussions with the United States implicit the disarmament of Hamas but insisted immoderate statement would person to effect successful the panic radical surrendering its full arsenal, according to Netanyahu.

"It needs to beryllium genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament," Netanyahu said.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said helium remains successful lockstep with President Donald Trump, but helium is not settling for "fictitious" peace, helium said Sunday. (Kevin Mohatt/File Photo/File Photo/Reuters)

"When I accidental Hamas is disarmed, that means the dense weapons, the little dense weapons, each the weapons," helium added.

Hamas remains committed to a Gaza roadmap agreed with mediators and representatives of the Board of Peace successful Cairo 10 days ago, elder Hamas authoritative Basem Naim told Reuters.

Hamas expects mediators and the United States to "press Netanyahu and his authorities to adhere to the roadmap," helium added.

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Trump had teased a disarmament of the Hamas violent radical successful Gaza arsenic a landmark measurement toward peace, but determination remained skeptics, including Israel's Netanyahu, whose Sunday comments enactment him astatine likelihood with the latest Board of Peace connection arsenic the Trump medication seeks to determination guardant with a broader program for Gaza pursuing the ceasefire reached past year.

Trump said past period that determination had been a breakthrough successful efforts to beforehand the bid process and that Hamas had agreed to laic down its weapons. Hamas controlled Gaza for astir 2 decades earlier carrying retired the Oct. 7, 2023, violent onslaught connected Israel that triggered the war.

Israel has continued carrying retired strikes successful Gaza since the ceasefire took effect past October, portion the aboriginal disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli forces stay cardinal issues successful negotiations implicit the territory.

Netanyahu made wide Sunday that Israel would defy provisions successful U.S.-backed proposals that his authorities considers unacceptable.

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He besides reiterated his absorption to the constitution of a Palestinian authorities successful either Gaza oregon the West Bank.

"As agelong arsenic I americium premier minister, determination volition beryllium nary Palestinian state, not successful Gaza and not successful Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu said. "Neither ‘Fatahstan’ nor ‘Hamastan.’"

The Israeli leader’s rejection of the 15-point connection underscores the hurdles facing efforts to crook the ceasefire into a lasting settlement, peculiarly implicit the series of Hamas’ disarmament and an Israeli subject withdrawal.

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Netanyahu indicated Israel would proceed moving with Washington but said the authorities would clasp steadfast connected its information demands, peculiarly its insistence that Hamas beryllium afloat stripped of its weapons earlier Israeli troops permission their positions successful Gaza.

Netanyahu besides utilized his remarks Sunday to code Israeli operations elsewhere successful the region, saying the subject had precocious acted "forcefully" successful Lebanon and carried retired what helium described arsenic "very important activity."

On Iran, Netanyahu said Tehran has refrained from striking Israel due to the fact that "it knows what a almighty stroke we volition woody it if it does," portion praising Trump and the U.S.-Israel confederation implicit efforts to forestall Iran from obtaining atomic weapons.

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"I greatly admit President Trump," Netanyahu said." He is the top of our friends successful the White House. I greatly admit the humanities concern with the U.S. against Iran's attempts to get atomic weapons.

"And I privation to stress erstwhile again: With oregon without an agreement, arsenic agelong arsenic I americium Prime Minister, Iran volition not person a atomic weapon. Because the beingness of our precious country, the state of each of us, the beingness of Israel, is not up for negotiation."

Reuters contributed to this report.