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U.S. President Donald Trump, and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan attend the meeting of the Board of Peace during the 56th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 22, 2026. Photo by (Turkish Foreign Ministry \/ Handout\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Ron Kampeas<\/a><\/p>\n July 31, 2026<\/p>\n (JTA<\/a>) \u2014 Israel has rejected a Gaza peace plan advanced with much fanfare by President Donald Trump, saying it did not adequately address disarmament by Hamas.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be no Israeli withdrawal,\u201d an unnamed \u201cdiplomatic official\u201d said in a statement issued in Hebrew to Israeli reporters.<\/p>\n The rejection has spurred blistering expressions of anger by unnamed U.S. officials in comments to reporters and has thrown into public view an area of dispute between the two longtime allies.<\/p>\n The statement came in the hours after Trump posted what might have sounded like a dramatic breakthrough to his Truth Social account on Thursday evening. The U.S.-convened Board of Peace had announced a \u201cHISTORIC\u201d agreement that would lead to the \u201cCOMPLETE DISARMAMENT\u201d of Hamas, Trump wrote in a statement that the White House shared.<\/p>\n \u201cCONGRATULATIONS TO ALL ON THIS AMAZING DEVELOPMENT, THAT EVERYBODY SAID COULD NEVER BE ACHIEVED!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n Referring to the Hamas attack on Israel that initiated the current war, he added, \u201cThe threat that emerged from Gaza on October 7 will NOT be allowed to rebuild!\u201d<\/p>\n The Board of Peace had announced a deal several hours ahead of Trump, saying, \u201cFor the first time, Hamas officially has committed to an actionable plan for relinquishing all its weapons, which will be followed by Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamas officials have said they had accepted the plan in principle but were waiting for Israel to sign on. Ghazi Hamad, a senior official, told Reuters<\/a> on Friday that Israel must accept the plan before Hamas would disarm, while a different leader associated with the group tweeted that the \u201cball is now in the enemy\u2019s court\u201d while also acknowledging that Hamas had accepted the proposal despite misgivings.<\/p>\n \u201cCertainly, it is not what our people aspire to after their epic battle on the path to liberation,\u201d tweeted<\/a> Basem Naim, a former health minister who now lives in Turkey.<\/p>\n The Israeli rejection said the plan did not \u201cadequately address\u201d Israel\u2019s demands that Hama must be divested of its weapons, and that the weapons must be removed from Gaza and that the Gaza Strip must be demilitarized. It did not mention Trump or the Board of Peace, the entity Trump established last year in part to supplant the United Nations, a body he does not trust.<\/p>\n \u201cThere will be no Israeli withdrawal from the Yellow Line in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is disarmed and the strip is demilitarized,\u201d the statement said. The Yellow Line demarcates the areas Hamas and Israel control in Gaza; Israel still controls just over half of the strip.<\/p>\n The statement said these messages were conveyed to \u201cenvoy Tony Blair,\u201d an executive member of the Board of Peace, without naming him as such. Other executive members include Trump intimates, among them, Secretary of State Marco Rubio;; Middle East peace envoy Steve Witkoff; Trump\u2019s chief of staff Susie Wiles; and Trump\u2019s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n The Israeli statement also did not mention Nikolai Mladenov, the Board\u2019s High Representative for Gaza, who first posted the news about the ostensible agreement, which Hamas has yet to confirm.<\/p>\n \u201cImplementation and verification have to be real,\u201d Mladenov said. \u201cWithdrawal must move in lockstep with decommissioning.\u201d<\/p>\n U.S. officials bristled at the Israeli statement. \u201cWe\u2019re not asking Israel to do anything that isn\u2019t in the 20-point plan that they agreed to initially, and so we\u2019re very confident they will adhere to it,\u201d an official told the Times of Israel<\/a>, referring to the agreement that brought about the release of Israeli hostages a year ago. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, President Trump would be very, very disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n The ceasefire that ended the hostage crisis did not last, and Hamas and Israel have been fighting in Gaza since, although with fewer casualties than characterized the first two years of the war.<\/p>\n Axios quoted an official who was blunter: \u201cHe\u2019s f\u2013king got to stand by his commitments,\u201d the official said of Netanyahu.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Netanyahu, facing elections in October, is under pressure from the Israeli right not to relinquish Gaza. His coalition last year absented itself from the Knesset when the opposition brought up Trump\u2019s 20-point plan for a vote of approval. Netanyahu last year accepted the plan in an appearance with Trump, but he has not sought its ratification.<\/a><\/p>\n Axios also reported that Trump and Netanyahu spoke about Gaza in their meeting this week, when Netanyahu met with Trump to discuss next steps in the war Israel and the United States launched against Iran in February.<\/p>\n The Israeli statement pointedly said \u2014 in its first paragraph \u2014 that did not happen.<\/p>\n \u201cThe topic of Gaza did not come up at all between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n In his statement, Trump also singled out Turkey and Qatar for helping to broker the deal. Israel reviles both countries as enabling Hamas, and their presence on the Board of Peace initially delayed Israel\u2019s own entrance.<\/p>\n
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