Donald Trump says Hamas disarmament deal is a "major milestone in the implementation" of Gaza plan

President Trump, one day before the Board of Peace issued its Gaza plan, announced that Hamas had accepted full disarmament, calling that agreement a major advance in carrying out his 20-point peace proposal. The roadmap, published by the body created under Trump’s U.N.-backed plan, ties gradual Israeli troop withdrawal to step-by-step decommissioning of weapons, eventually leaving them with a new Palestinian governing committee rather than destroying them. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and President Isaac Herzog openly rejected the approach, demanding disarmament before any pullout and arguing the plan departs from Trump’s original blueprint, which required all arms removed. The division shows Israel and the international community moving apart over how to end the war.