Trump Gaza Board caves to Israel on Hamas disarmament
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- Trump's Gaza Board of Peace appears to be walking back the disarmament roadmap it agreed to with Hamas last week in order to comply with Israeli demands.
- The Board's reversal risks throwing the entire disarmament process into jeopardy, according to the source.
- Trump had publicly touted the original roadmap as a "massive diplomatic breakthrough" before the apparent backtrack.
- Netanyahu rejected the Trump Gaza draft outright, publicly insisting there will be no Israeli pullback before Hamas disarms (per India Today World headline).
- Hamas was a signatory to the week-old roadmap that the Board now appears to be reneging on, leaving the group's compliance status unclear.
Why it matters: The Board of Peace's reversal of a deal it signed days ago — under pressure from Israel — threatens to unravel the fragile Gaza process Trump personally championed as a breakthrough. Netanyahu's precondition that disarmament come before any Israeli pullback raises the bar Hamas must clear, putting both the ceasefire timeline and Trump's credibility as a Middle East broker on the line.
