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Trump: Board of Peace has reached agreement on 'complete disarmament' of Hamas

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US President Donald Trump announced Thursday that his Board of Peace had reached an agreement on the 'complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza.' The agreement was inked hours earlier in Egypt between negotiators from Hamas, the Board of Peace and Mideast mediating countries Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel. However, an Israeli official then issued a statement saying that the Board of Peace's 15-point disarmament proposal did not meet Jerusalem's demands for Gaza's complete demilitarization. Accordingly, despite Trump's subsequent upbeat post, it was unclear how the agreement would be able to proceed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government raised these objections recently to Board of Peace envoy Tony Blair, the Israeli official said in a statement, without specifying its issues with the disarmament proposal. 'There will be no IDF withdrawal from the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip before Hamas is disarmed and the Strip is fully demilitarized,' the Israeli official added. The proposal would see Hamas - over an eight-month period - gradually hand over its weapons to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, the Board of Peace-overseen panel of Palestinian technocrats that is tasked with replacing the terror group in governing the Strip, an Arab diplomat familiar with the negotiations said earlier Thursday. The Arab diplomat said Hamas was inclined to accept the Board of Peace's disarmament proposal, recognizing that doing so would 'put the ball in Israel's court,' the Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel.