Ben Cohen

That essentially happened, although one hostage, the remains of one hostage, Rana Gvili,

are still in Gaza.

They still have not been returned.

His family is desperate.

They want closure.

So, in fact, Hamas has technically not met its obligations under the first phase of the ceasefire.

Nonetheless, the talk has been of moving into the second phase of the ceasefire.

This is something that President Trump is extremely keen on.

But I think that that

could fall on two points.

Firstly, Hamas doesn't want to disarm.

One of the key requirements of phase two is that Hamas surrenders its weapons.

They've made it very clear, their officials have made it very clear, multiple different Hamas officials in successive interviews, we are the resistance, we are fighting for the liberation of Palestine, we're not giving up our weapons.

So that's the first major problem is that you have an armed terrorist group,

that is still present on the ground and still very much committed to pursuing its nefarious goals.

I think the second problem that flows from the refusal of Hamas to disarm is Trump envisages what he calls the ISF, the International Stabilization Force.

This would be a kind of international peacekeeping force that would enter Gaza.

I think the numbers I've seen are anywhere between 10 and 20,000 troops

to maintain that ceasefire.

It does have a UN Security Council mandate that was secured in a vote last month.