Trump-Hamas Gaza Deal Stalls on Disarm-Then-Withdraw Order
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- Trump touted "a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT" of Hamas this week, framing the deal as a major foreign policy breakthrough.
- Board of Peace released the full text of its 15-point plan on Friday, laying out the framework for the Gaza disarmament arrangement.
- Analysts cautioned that a substantial gap remains between Israel and Hamas on a path forward, with the core sticking point being the disarm-then-withdraw sequence.
- The deadlock emerges immediately after the plan's release, suggesting the text itself exposed the unresolved sequencing dispute that Trump's rhetoric had papered over.
Why it matters: The sequencing gap means Trump's headline-grabbing Gaza deal has no operative path forward between the two parties whose buy-in the 15-point plan requires — analysts already flag a substantial Israel-Hamas divide, so the celebrated 'historic agreement' risks stalling before any disarmament or withdrawal actually begins.
