Benjamin Netanyahu: "will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and…"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet Sunday that Israel rejects the U.S.-backed Board of Peace’s 15-point Gaza framework and will keep forces in the strip until Hamas’s military capabilities are fully dismantled, including all weaponry, in what he called genuine rather than nominal disarmament. The board had tied Israeli withdrawal to that disarmament, a shift from the earlier ceasefire agreement. Hamas, which said it would dissolve Gaza’s emergency committee but refused to give up its armed wing, reaffirmed support for the plan and called on mediators to enforce all stages, including full Israeli withdrawal, aid access, reconstruction, and a lasting ceasefire. Israel has not completed promised pullbacks and has continued deadly operations, with Gaza health officials reporting more than a thousand post-ceasefire deaths.