Israel says it has serious concerns with Hamas disarmament deal

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said as Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza. The remarks by Doron Spielman, spokesperson

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said as Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza.

Israel has shared "serious security concerns" with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said Sunday in what were some of the first public comments since U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement.

Doron Spielman, spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister's office, told The Associated Press that Israel's intelligence assessment is that Hamas remains committed to rebuilding its military rather than genuinely demilitarizing.

Israel has shared serious security concerns with the White House about a proposed disarmament deal with Hamas

Trump’s ceasefire plan includes calls on the militant group to surrender weapons and destroy its network of tunnels and for Israeli forces to withdraw from Gaza

Hamas said that it would begin disarming as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed nine months ago to end the nearly three-year-long conflict. It marks a potential breakthrough in ending the conflict, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remain.

Israel has shared serious security concerns with the White House about a proposed disarmament deal with Hamas

Israel says it has serious concerns with Hamas disarmament deal  apnews.com

Strikes hit Gaza homes after the US unveiled plan for Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal.

"The USA is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II," Trump claimed.

A US-backed proposal would see Hamas surrender its weapons to a new Palestinian governing body as Israeli forces gradually withdraw from Gaza. The plan has already drawn fierce opposition from Israel's far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Mr Trump also disclosed that the agreement will be carried out in carefully structured phases and that “once disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw.”

President Trump said Friday that Israel is pleased with the Board of Peace’s agreement with Hamas to disarm the militant group in Gaza, despite its apparent skepticism of the framework.  “We do have an understanding with Israel,” Trump told reporters at his Cabinet meeting at Camp David. “Israel is very happy about it.

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Hamas official says group 'made concessions' for sake of Palestinian people Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said in an interview with Al Jazeera that the group “made concessions for the sake of our Palestinian people”. “Our primary objective is to protect our people in the Gaza Strip from the ongoing hostile measures

Israeli withdrawal would proceed in parallel with the implementation and deployment of an international stabilisation force.

U.N. humanitarian organizations continue to obstruct an ongoing federal probe into whether U.S. financial aid and relief operations in Gaza are tied to Hamas, according to U.S. officials and congressional documentation. The investigation, spearheaded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of In

Hamas says it will only disarm after Israel meets previous ceasefire commitments, despite President Donald Trump's announcement of a breakthrough U.S.-brokered agreement.

Israel has unleashed fresh airstrikes on Gaza just hours after US President Donald Trump announced a 'historic' disarmament deal, local officials have said.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, July 31 (Reuters) - Implementation of the deal to bring peace to Gaza announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will depend on Israel first meeting its commitments under an agreement reached last year, a senior Hamas official told Reuters on Friday. In a post on his Truth Social platform on T

CAIRO, July 31 - Implementation of the deal to bring peace to Gaza announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will depend on Israel first meeting its commitments under an agreement reached last year, a senior Hamas official told Reuters on Friday.

There has been no immediate statement from Israel regarding the agreement.

President Trump created the international organization, aimed at resolving the long-running war in Gaza and other conflicts.

A Hamas official and a diplomat close to the Cairo talks said the progress would be tested by Israel's response and whether this allowed a broad accord to be reached.

CAIRO/WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said Cairo talks between mediators and Hamas leaders have led to a “HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas” in what he described as structured phases.

The second phase of Donald Trump's 20-point peace plan for Gaza,  was Hamas's disarmament and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territory.

Hamas has said it agreed to a deal to end the war with Israel that included provisions addressing its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.