US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (October 14) that Hamas said that a militant group had to disarm or face violent behavior.
“If we do not break, we will disarm them. And it happens quickly and maybe violently,” Trump said during a White House meeting with Argentine President Javier Mileim.
The remarks came after Hamas liberated the last living hostage from Gaza on Monday, while Israel issued buses of Palestinian detainees in an agreement for a ceasefire through Trump. Hamas, however, publicly did not follow to put his weapons.
Communication through intermediaries
Trump claimed that Hamas agreed to disarm as mentioned in his 20 -point proposal of peace. “I was talking to Hamas and said that you are going to disarm, right? Yes, sir, we will disarm. They told me,” he said, explaining that the report was mediated through intermediaries.
Gaza’s peace plan
Trump warned that the next phase of the ceasefire began and emphasized the need to restore the bodies of the killed. “The large burden was canceled, but the work is not done. The dead were not returned as promised! The second phase begins right now !!!” Published on social media.
Hamas signals resistance to key Trump ceasefire requirements
Hamas seemed to refuse the key elements of the President Donald Trump’s ceasefire just a few hours after the release of all 20 Gaza hostages. The spokesman of Haz Qasso said that the group would not give up their weapons or control over the Gaza belt.
“We do not have to limit ourselves to Israeli conditions and definitions related to weapons,” Qassem al-Arabiya said. “We will not be prisoners of Israeli conditions or requirements. This is one of the central points of the fight in the next phase after the end of the aggression in the Gaza band.”
While Hamas signaled openness to the Palestinian technocrats who led the Gaza administration and allowed the Palestinian authority the role in the management of public affairs, Qasso insisted that the group would remain part of the “administrative measures” in the zone.
Test ceasefire Gaza ceasefire
The fragile ceasefire in Gaza faced its challenge on Tuesday when Israel announced that it would shorten the flow of help in half and the delay of opening the major border crossing of Rafah with Egypt. This step came in the middle of the accusation that Hamas had violated the US mediation agreement by detaining Israeli hostages.
To replace hostages and detention
On Monday, the first phase of the ceasefire recorded the return of the last 20 living hostages celebrated in Israel, while the Palestinians welcomed the release of nearly 2,000 arrested Israel.
Hamas handed over the remnants of four deceased hostages, but indicated that restoring bodies for another 24 could take longer, because not all burial grounds were identified. Yet the Red Cross received four other bodies from Gaza, and the Israeli army said on Tuesday evening.
Termination conditions to hostage
The ceasefire plan required the return of “all hostages, live and deceased” within 72 hours of the agreement. It also included a delay provision that requires Hamas to share information about the remaining deceased hostages and “make maximum effort to ensure that these obligations be fulfilled as soon as possible”.
(Tagstotranslate) Hamas disarmament
