Hamas says it has agreed to disarm after Trump announces Board of Peace plan

US President Donald Trump says the Board of Peace has reached an agreement for the 'complete disarmament' of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. A senior Hamas official has told the BBC the group has agreed to the Board of Peace's plan to completely disarm in Gaza and that an official statement would be released soon. Israel has yet to comment. The board, created and led by Trump, said in a statement that the agreement concludes months of 'intensive, good faith negotiations', and that its focus is now on implementation. The US president said Israel would withdraw from Gaza 'as disarmament is completed' and called the agreement 'a critical step towards Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian government'. The officials said the plan was deliberately built on 'zero trust' and with verification, with neither Hamas nor Israel moving to the next phase until the other has fulfilled its commitments. The BBC has seen the agreement, which provides for the inventorying and storage of Hamas's remaining heavy weapons under Palestinian supervision. Following Trump's announcement, the Times of Israel reported, citing an unnamed source, that the agreement had been signed between negotiators from Hamas as well as the board and mediating countries. But it said that 'an Israeli office' issued a statement saying the disarmament proposal did not meet Israel's demands. Earlier in the day, unnamed sources who spoke to Reuters reported that talks between the mediators and Hamas leaders in Cairo on implementing the US-brokered Gaza peace plan had made rare progress, but an Israeli official said the proposed terms were not satisfactory.