Hamas Agrees to Gaza Disarmament Roadmap, Trump's Board of Peace Says

The agreement is not a finished process.

Under the framework, Hamas and other Palestinian factions would surrender weapons to a newly formed National Committee, the sole entity authorized to hold arms inside Gaza going forward, with an international verification body confirming each step as it happens.

Any further Israeli withdrawal beyond the Yellow Line is explicitly contingent on Hamas completing its side of the disarmament roadmap first, not tied to a fixed calendar date the way the 14-day negotiating window is.

The Ceasefire This Deal Is Supposed to Reinforce Hasn't Fully Held It is worth stepping back to what the October 2025 ceasefire was originally supposed to accomplish, because Thursday's disarmament agreement is explicitly framed as its second phase, not a standalone breakthrough arriving out of nowhere.

That distinction, between stopping active combat and building durable peace, is not a semantic quibble in Gaza's case; it is the entire reason the Board of Peace exists as a standing institution rather than the original ceasefire simply being declared complete once major hostilities paused last October.

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Trump announced a Hamas disarmament framework Thursday, but the six-to-eight-month roadmap, a still-forming international force, and a same-day ceasefire violation show how far the agreement is from finished.

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