{"id":575584,"date":"2026-08-05T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/575584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:08:08","slug":"israel-did-not-agree-to-gaza-withdrawal-plan-says-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/575584\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel did not agree to Gaza withdrawal plan, says Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In his first public comments on the proposal, Netanyahu\u00a0said the\u00a0Trump\u00a0administration had sent Jerusalem a draft of the plan, which Hamas accepted last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump thinks \u2014 or his team thinks \u2014 that they can get Hamas to disarm and demilitarise Gaza. We are looking into it,\u201d Netanyahu said in a video statement posted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey sent us a draft. We did not agree to it. It was not our draft. We sent back our comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s remarks appear to put Israel at odds with the US-backed roadmap, which calls for an initial Israeli withdrawal to the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/inside-gaza-the-ceasefire-holds-at-least-for-now-h5bplltk\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yellow Line<\/a> in Gaza as part of a wider process leading to Hamas disarmament.<\/p>\n<p>Israel withdrew to the line under the October 2025 ceasefire and hostage-release agreement but has since expanded its control over parts of the Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said Israel would not withdraw from its present positions until Hamas was fully disarmed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/gaza-peacekeeping-force-delayed-jylz2z3b\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Peace<\/a>, the US-backed body overseeing the initiative, has been seeking to secure agreement from Israel after Hamas accepted the disarmament proposal.<\/p>\n<p>A senior US official previously said the proposal was an extension of Trump\u2019s 20-point plan for ending the Gaza war, which Israel accepted last year.<\/p>\n<p>The official warned that Trump would be \u201cvery disappointed\u201d if Israel blocked the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would also require Israel to halt military operations in Gaza once it takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has objected to that condition, although reports indicate it had agreed to tighten rules governing IDF strikes and targeted assassinations.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu defended the right of Israeli forces to continue responding to threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are instructing IDF soldiers to do whatever is necessary to defend themselves, defend our territory and defend people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his first public comments on the proposal, Netanyahu\u00a0said the\u00a0Trump\u00a0administration had sent Jerusalem a draft of the plan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,148346,51,85,46,43],"class_list":["post-575584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-board-of-peace","tag-hamas","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}