Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that Israel will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas disarms, rejecting US President Donald Trump's 15-point peace plan. This stance was announced on Sunday during a meeting with his cabinet, where he emphasized the need for "genuine disarmament" of all types of weaponry. According to the plan, Israeli forces would withdraw as Hamas disarms and an international stabilization force secures the enclave. However, Netanyahu's position is at odds with Hamas, which has insisted that Israel halt attacks before implementing its part of the agreement.
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Hamas must disarm for Israel to pull out of Gaza, Netanyahu says
Israeli president tells country's cabinet he rejects Trump's Gaza plan
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday restated his rejection of Donald Trump's latest Gaza plan, even as Israel's military has effectively halted attacks in the territory under pressure from the U.S. president.
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Netanyahu's televised remarks to his right-wing government come as he's in campaign mode and seeks re-election, with a vote due on Oct. 27.
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But he's caught between far-right ministers angered by concessions in Gaza and his key military backer, Trump, who wants progress toward ending the conflict there with a new 15-point peace plan.
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Israel has scaled back attacks in Gaza since Monday, when Nikolay Mladenov, the Gaza envoy for Trump's Board of Peace that oversees the Gaza ceasefire, met with Netanyahu.
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A source familiar with Israel's position said it had agreed that the military would only act against what it perceives as immediate threats in Gaza and no longer carry out targeted assassinations as it had been doing on a near-daily basis.
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Israel, Hamas disagree over proposed timings
Trump announced last month that there had been a breakthrough in his plan to end the war, to which both Israel and Hamas agreed, with Israeli forces withdrawing as Hamas disarms and an International Stabilization Force working with a new Palestinian police force to secure the enclave.
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But complications have swiftly emerged.
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Israel has said that Israeli troops in Gaza would not move before Hamas disarms.
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Hamas has insisted that Israel halt attacks before it begins implementing the part of the agreement dealing with its arms.
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"Israel does not accept the 15-point document," Netanyahu said at the start of a meeting with cabinet ministers.
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The military "will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed....
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It means heavy weaponry, lighter weaponry, all weaponry.
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"And we are talking about genuine disarmament, not fictitious disarmament," he said, noting that Israel is in talks with the United States on the plan.
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Netanyahu made similar remarks in a social media post on Tuesday.
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"They [the U.S.] have ideas, some of which are acceptable to us and some of which are unacceptable to us," Netanyahu said, without elaborating.
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Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, told Reuters on Sunday that the group remained committed to the roadmap agreed with mediators in Cairo 10 days ago.
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We expect the mediators and the U.S. guarantor to press Netanyahu and his government to adhere to the roadmap and not obstruct the process for internal political and electoral reasons, while continuing to jeopardize the region's security and stability."
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Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich praised Netanyahu.
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"We went to war with a central goal — the destruction of Hamas," he said in a statement.
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"The [military] cannot withdraw even a millimetre from the Gaza Strip.
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The Gaza Strip cannot begin any process of reconstruction before the complete dismantling and demobilization of Hamas and the Gaza Strip."
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Hamas says deal depends on Israeli commitments
Trump said last month that Iran-backed Hamas, which ruled Gaza for nearly two decades before carrying out the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war, had agreed to lay down its weapons.
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That attack resulted in the death of some 1,200 people, according to Israeli figures.
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Hamas avoids use of the term "disarmament" and said the group agreed to hand over weapons to be stored under a U.S.-backed Palestinian technocrat administration that would run the affairs in Gaza under the supervision of Trump's Board of Peace.
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Hamas said it agreed to the plan in order to spare the people in Gaza a possible resumption of war, but it added that the implementation of the deal would depend on Israel first meeting its own commitments, including withdrawal.
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Since the U.S.-mediated agreement reached in October to end the war, Israel had vowed to hunt down every militant who had taken part in the October 2023 attack before stopping the targeted attacks on Monday.
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More than 1,250 people have been killed in the Israeli attacks since the ceasefire, most of them civilians, according to Gaza health officials.
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Hamas has not disclosed the number of its fighters killed.
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Israeli troops have occupied and depopulated two-thirds of the enclave, leaving nearly all its more than two million residents confined to a tiny strip of land under Hamas control along the coast, most in makeshift tents or damaged buildings.
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