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As Netanyahu demands \u2018genuine\u2019 Hamas disarmament before considering pull-out from Gaza, a look at what happens next.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected United States President Donald Trump\u2019s 15-point plan for Gaza, saying that Israeli forces will not withdraw until Hamas is \u201cgenuinely disarmed\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael rejects the 15-point document,\u201d he said at a cabinet meeting, stressing that Hamas must give up all of its weapons before any pull-back.<\/p>\n
Trump late last month announced a breakthrough in the US-led ceasefire framework, saying that Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza had accepted a phased plan under which they would surrender their weapons to a new Palestinian governing body, and Israel would begin pulling out troops in tandem with disarmament.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu, under pressure from his right-wing base ahead of elections, has seemingly hardened his stance after days of mounting criticism of the plan.<\/p>\n
So, what is Trump\u2019s 15-point plan, and why has Israel rejected it?<\/p>\n
What is Trump\u2019s 15-point plan?<\/strong><\/p>\n On July 30, the US-led Board of Peace proposed a 15-point roadmap for Gaza, detailing a phased, conditional framework for disarmament and reconstruction in the war-torn coastal enclave.<\/p>\n The plan mandates that Hamas disarm in exchange for a full Israeli military withdrawal and the transition of governance to an independent Palestinian National Committee, supported by an international security force.<\/p>\n The Board of Peace, created by Trump in October with him serving as its lifetime chair, is led by the US government. United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2803 designates it the body responsible for overseeing the Gaza peace plan.<\/p>\n Trump said the agreement would be implemented in stages, with Israeli forces withdrawing as the disarmament process advances.<\/p>\n Despite the framework, significant challenges remain, as Hamas hinges its compliance on an end to Israel\u2019s genocidal actions.<\/p>\n A member of Hamas\u2019s negotiating delegation last month told Al Jazeera that the group\u2019s implementation of the agreement will be dependent on Israel fulfilling its commitments.<\/p>\n However, the Board of Peace earlier this week said an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza will only take place after the disarmament of Hamas is complete.<\/p>\n Israel has killed more than 73,300 Palestinians in Gaza since its genocidal war began in October 2023. And since agreeing to a US-mediated \u201cceasefire\u201d with Hamas in October 2025, it has continued to carry out strikes on Gaza, killing more than 1,200 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.<\/p>\n What did Netanyahu say while rejecting the deal?<\/p>\n The Israeli army \u201cwill not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens\u201d, the Israeli prime minister said.<\/p>\n Netanyahu added that Israel was engaging with Washington over its concerns about the plan.<\/p>\n \u201cThey have ideas; some of them are acceptable to us, and some are not, and we know how to stand our ground on these matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Israeli leader, who is expected to face a tough national election in October this year, with successive surveys showing he is on course to lose, said that Hamas must give up all of its weapons.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are talking about real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament,\u201d Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s Nour Odeh, reporting from the occupied West Bank, said discussions around the 15-point plan, including Hamas\u2019s disarmament and Israel\u2019s potential withdrawal, \u201care extremely controversial for the [Netanyahu-led] right-wing government\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt seems that Netanyahu, so close to elections, has hit the reset button, saying that none of that will happen under his watch,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is extremely problematic for the Board of Peace and the mediators who have been working for months now to try to find a way to carry out the disarmament of Hamas and have Israel commit to a phased withdrawal from Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n How have Palestinians reacted?<\/strong><\/p>\n Al Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said most people in the war-battered coastal enclave \u201cexpected\u201d Israel to reject the proposal.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only concern that people have right now is that this is translating into greater uncertainty,\u201d he reported, adding that the plan \u201cwas meant to provide more structure and a framework\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are important elements that were part of the plan in terms of security: Israeli withdrawal from the area that it has been occupying over the past years across Gaza known as the \u2018Yellow Line\u2019, the disarmament of Hamas, as well as the entry of international stabilization forces. Now, the full rejection here puts the sequencing and the steps to complete that into serious question. It translates into no clear end to hostilities and wars.\u201d<\/p>\n Political analyst and former adviser to the Palestinian negotiations team Xavier Abu Eid says the Board of Peace and UNSC Resolution 2803 were accepted late last year because it was argued at that time that they were the only way to end the Israeli genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it was very clear from the very beginning that the 20-point plan of President Trump and the 15-point disarmament and implementation plan that followed were more about meeting Israeli interests than the Palestinian right to self-determination,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n \u201cJustice for Palestinians is something that nobody talks about. So, certainly, this remains a position,\u201d he said, adding that Trump is unlikely to be happy with Netanyahu\u2019s rejection.<\/p>\n \u201cBut at the same time, Trump has never even pretended to push any sort of accountability measures for Netanyahu violating even their own agreements,\u201d the analyst said.<\/p>\n What do the experts say?<\/strong><\/p>\n Israeli analyst Dan Perry said Netanyahu\u2019s move against the proposed Gaza plan is \u201cmisaligned with what the people in Israel would generally want, if they understood correctly what\u2019s going on\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no naivety about Hamas. But even if there is an idea that there is a declarative agreement to disarm, it is something that should be welcomed so clearly,\u201d Perry, the former chief of The Associated Press news agency in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n \u201cI keep hearing about a trade-off between Israeli security demands and the obvious needs of the Palestinian people, the need to alleviate and fix the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, but these are not at loggerheads.\u201d<\/p>\n Much of Israeli society has backed the genocidal war on Gaza following the October 7 attack on southern Israel, as well as the war on Lebanon and Iran.<\/p>\n Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat, says Netanyahu needs \u201ca forever war\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis Israeli rejection of the Gaza plan \u2026 should be viewed entirely in the context of the upcoming Israeli election on October 27,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n Pinkas said Netanyahu made a \u201ccalculation that this is risk-free\u201d, \u201cthat he can supposedly defy Trump because Trump doesn\u2019t care enough, because of the sequence, because Hamas hasn\u2019t disarmed yet, because he can get away with it\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd this is all about the forever war and the election,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n