Hamas says it will lay down its arms in Gaza
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We start in Gaza. Hamas, which has ruled the Strip for nearly 20 years, says it's agreed to lay down its arms as part of a peace plan put forward by President Trump's Board of Peace. It says its weapons will be put in storage under Palestinian oversight. In return, the Israeli army will gradually withdraw from Gaza. It currently holds around 60% of the Strip's territory. The US president has described the deal as an historic agreement, but importantly, Israel has yet to say whether it's signed up. And in Gaza, there's little enthusiasm. People there know that agreements between Palestinians and Israel have been made and broken before. Let's get more from Rushdie Aba Alouf, our Gaza correspondent, who's in Cairo.
I think there was two major developments in the last couple of months. Firstly, Hamas was not elected a leader for about a year since Israel killed Israel. Yahya Sunwar, and now they have a new leader who is from Gaza, who is backed by the militants in Gaza. And I think this gives him the power to take the decision. The second, when I spoke to Hamas in the last couple of days, it seems that they were relying a lot on the Iran-American war. believing that wind in Hamas will have a leverage over this. And they seem to be losing hope about this. I spoke to one of the Hamas members of the negotiation team. They said, we have made this step because we care about the people of Gaza and the suffering of the people of Gaza.
He was trying to push for using wording that Hamas will not hand over the weapon to Israel and the weapon will be under Palestinian National Committee control. It is a significant step. This is a major development since the agreement in October. the US President Donald Trump peace map back in October. This is the most significant, I think, step towards going forward in this plan because for months Hamas leaders have been coming to Cairo, Turkey and Qatar to discuss this and all the time they were saying that we will not allow disarmament but this time it is significant because the agreement took clearly about infrastructure, weapon manufacturing and most important the network of tunnels in Gaza that will be dismantled.
So it's an important moment but of course for it to be truly significant we need to hear from Israel. Have we got any sense what the Israeli government thinks of this deal?
We are not sure if this is enough for Israel to claim victory because, you know, we have seen Israeli Prime Minister many times saying that we will not allow even small arms by Hamas. And there is, in this agreement, it was not clear whether Hamas militants, they will keep their, you know, small firearms because they were all the time concerned that Revenge might be against their people. Many Gazan accused Hamas during the war of killing their opponents and maintaining by force law and killing some of the people. Also, there is militia backed by Israel operating in some of the area under Israeli control.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:19
2
What are the key claims of the Hamas agreement to lay down arms in Gaza?
10:19–14:33
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What details does Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf give about Hamas's decision?
14:33–23:09
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How might Israel respond and what are the outstanding political questions?
23:09–34:13
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