Hamas has allegedly agreed to implement Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including disarmament, according to Al Arabiya’s report. The report claims that Hamas has already begun collecting the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages and requested a halt to aerial bombardment in specific areas in order to carry out hostage retrieval. According to the report, the handover of living hostages will take place in a single phase, while the handover of the bodies will take more time.
Hamas has reportedly received guarantees from the US stipulating a permanent Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. According to the source, the movement has agreed to hand over weapons to a Palestinian-Egyptian body under international supervision and has informed Washington. In addition, the US has also guaranteed that Hamas officials in Gaza will not be harmed, although whether they will leave the enclave remains unknown.
The US has called on West Jerusalem to halt air strikes in the enclave and proposed that Hamas release all remaining hostages within 72 hours of Israel suspending military operations and withdrawing troops to the agreed-upon line. Trump has warned the Palestinian armed group to act swiftly. After the swaps, an apolitical, Hamas-free transitional government will be established in Gaza, intended to become a deradicalized, terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.