According to the announcements: ♦ Hamas agrees to gradually surrender weapons in exchange for Israeli troop withdrawal, under a phased plan announced by Donald Trump. ♦ Verification & Oversight: A verification committee will monitor disarmament and troop withdrawal, with weapons stored under a new Palestinian administration. ♦ International Mediation: Agreement brokered by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the US-led Board of Peace, aiming to enable Gaza reconstruction and humanitarian access.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – Via Truth Social – “Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza. This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and SECURITY.
This agreement is a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government that will work closely with the Board of Peace to help the Palestinian people. At the same time, Israel will have the security it deserves, with Gaza no longer used as a base for terror attacks.
This is a major milestone in the implementation of the Trump 20-Point Plan. The agreement will be carried out in carefully structured phases. As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw, and the International Stabilization Force will work with a new Palestinian police force to take responsibility for Gaza being safe for its residents and its neighbors.
One year ago there was a violent raging war, humanitarian crisis and hostages kept in brutal captivity. We have made historic progress and there is still much work to do.
I want to thank the mediators—Egypt, Qatar, and Türkiye—for their important efforts, and especially my outstanding team, whose tireless work made this historic breakthrough possible.
The threat that emerged from Gaza on October 7 will NOT be allowed to rebuild!
Under this agreement, Gaza will finally be in the hands of a new Palestinian government that serves its PEOPLE.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL ON THIS AMAZING DEVELOPMENT, THAT EVERYBODY SAID COULD NEVER BE ACHIEVED!
Optimism for the proposal/plan is primarily driven by the fact that Turkey, Egypt and Qatar are coordinating the terms and conditions for the disarming. From the Palestinian perspective, the U.S. and Israeli influence upon the Board of Peace is mitigated and balanced by the presence of Turkey and Egypt as pragmatic insurance.
This is a very tenuous agreement with multiple points of potential collapse, not the least of which is the Israeli government refusing to permit a stabilizing police force Netanyahu doesn’t control.
(VIA MSM) – […] Based on the premise of “zero trust”, each stage of the plan is supposed to be verifiable and should be accompanied by Israeli withdrawal.
But hours after the deal was agreed, an Israeli air strike wounded several Palestinians in Gaza.
Under the ceasefire agreement of last October, the IDF was given control of about 53 per cent of Gaza but has since expanded its territory to include an estimated 60 to 70 per cent of the territory.
“An agreement has been reached regarding the issue of weapons. Furthermore, an agreement has been reached on a gradual withdrawal of [Israeli forces] from the strip,” a Hamas official said.
Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas negotiating team, told Al Jazeera. “We will not take any action regarding disarmament prior to Israel’s withdrawal from the Strip.”
This appeared to contradict Mr Trump’s statement, which said: “As disarmament is completed, Israeli forces will withdraw…”
However, an official familiar with the negotiations told The Telegraph that Hamas understood “disarmament” to refer to the end of the process.
By contrast, “decommissioning” would involve Palestinian security forces storing the weapons, meaning that if Israel reneged on its commitments under the deal, Hamas could take back the weapons.
“The idea, in theory, is that all this can be reversed. That way you can agree to a process which is staged and verifiable,” the official said.
It is understood, however, that precise practical details of how and where the weapons would be stored have yet to be agreed, but under the agreement they could not be transferred to Israel.
The UK, principally through Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, has been a strong behind-the-scenes proponent of the “Northern Ireland-model” of decommissioning.
Israel has not yet commented formally on the agreement, but a US official said the Jewish state was “very sceptical” about Hamas complying.
Israeli officials were reported on Friday as saying that the country did not agree with the “shape” of the agreement, and had conveyed its concerns to Sir Tony Blair, who is working for Mr Trump’s board of peace on the issue.
The deal also depends on the creation of a Palestinian police force.
However, a Western official said that while much of the preparatory work had been done in identifying recruits, Israel was dragging its feet in allowing training to take place. (read more)
Security:
6. Gaza shall be governed according to the principle of One Authority, One Law, One Weapon. NCAG shall operate in accordance with Palestinian laws, relevant international standards and the principles of good governance.
7. Newly-trained police personnel shall be…
— Board of Peace (@BoardOfPeace) July 31, 2026
Reconstruction:
15. Implementation of the reconstruction of Gaza Strip and the provision of necessary resources and financing shall take place according to a plan and timetable prepared and supervised by BoP and NCAG in accordance with relevant laws and international standards.
— Board of Peace (@BoardOfPeace) July 31, 2026
I hope this works out. Can’t trust that region much. Fingers crossed and many prayers.
ditto 🙂
MAGA
Meanwhile, the mullahs effectively stall while they assemble their nuke.
Is this the latest version of “Deal or No Deal”?
You can’t negotiate with these people, to them we are infidels.
They don’t honor any agreement with non Muslims.
Within Islam deception is considered acceptable (even commendable) when it is used to further jihad.
I don’t know how many agreements need to fail before we stop trying the carrot and just use the stick.
This is true and has been proven again and again over the centuries, but the reality is (short of completely eradicating the cult of Mohammedanism and all its adherents) evil is never totally defeated, it can only be managed. Israel’s current ‘management’ of this problem has set these mutants back decades (just like we’re doing to Iran).
PDJT and Bibi have done a lot of heavy lifting toward the preservation of Western Civilization, but, unfortunately, all solutions are temporary.
God created darkness so that we can appreciate the light.
The issue will persist until the LORD Jesus Christ returns to the earth to set up his Kingdom. He will take care of the Moslem problem. You are correct, until then we can only “manage” the problem the best we can. The 21 verses in the book of Obadiah tell us about “completely eradicating the cult of Mohammedanism and all its adherents”:
https://thekingsbible.com/Bible/31/1
Other verses in the prophetic scriptures describe how the Lord will spend 2 1/2 days personally taking care of every Moslem on the planet before his feet touch down on the mount of Olives and it cleaves in half.
Yeah, sure. You can trust Hamas 100%. 🙄
Don’t worry Bibi will stop this from happening any time soon.
Hamas was supposed to disarm under the original agreement and they did not. It all started from there.
Bibi is a convenient foil for the uninformed.
looks like another disaster with the US taxpayers paying to rebuild this awful place.
Is there anything we’re not paying for?
Egypt is the only party in this that I think is truly committed to peace, and I think it would require an Egyptian -led peacekeeping force and policing to be successful.
Yeah right. Another ‘deal’ with terrorists. It’s Friday have other things to worry about./s
Has the entire area not been laid wasted by Hamas and the IDF? I’m beyond tired of this part of the world.
It’s like that one gnat in the middle of the night buzzing your ear, you sense it, try to ignore it, but it becomes so completely annoying and at some point you wake up and swat the thing into oblivion to allow some peace and quiet. These people (not including Israel, who are righteously defending themselves) have been fighting over this same patch of dirt for thousands of years… time to end the idiocy with the 7th Century throwbacks who have no honor.
I don’t believe for even one second that ANY “ New Palestinian Administration” will see to it that Hamas is disarmed
BECAUSE Palestine=Hamas=Palestine
This is a waste of time, just like negotiating with Iran
One day in and the “agreement” is already collapsing. Anyone who believes that Hamas will ever voluntarily disarm should be forced to live in Gaza for the next year while it continues to be run by a fully armed Hamas.
If it works, Trump will have eclipsed the Camp David Accords.
“This is a very tenuous agreement with multiple points of potential collapse, not the least of which is the Israeli government refusing to permit a stabilizing police force Netanyahu doesn’t control.”
It seems better than anything else that has ever been proposed. At least PDJT is trying and making more effort than anyone else before him. Someone needs to inform Mr. Netanyahu that you cannot always get everything you want.