The Gaza Peace Board has given Hamas until the end of the week to accept a disarmament proposal, as the U.S.-led international body pushes forward with plans to rebuild the Palestinian enclave, three sources familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
Nickolay Mladenov, the Board’s High Representative for Gaza, met on Friday in Cairo with a delegation of senior Hamas officials, informing them that the Gaza oversight board expects a disarmament agreement to be finalized by the week’s end.
Sources clarified that minor adjustments to the disarmament proposal would still be considered, while fundamental changes requested by Hamas would not be accepted.
Mladenov remains confident that the second phase of President Donald Trump’s plan to end the conflict in Gaza can move forward, according to one Arab diplomat, though intermediaries from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey expressed less optimism.
The mediators are trying to persuade Hamas to accept the U.S.-backed disarmament proposal, but the group “is unlikely to say ‘yes’ without significant conditions,” the Arab diplomat added.
