A hard-right Israeli politician has denounced a deal agreed by Hamas to hand over its weapons in return for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza as ‘unacceptable’.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said the agreement – hailed by US President Donald Trump as a ‘major milestone’ – was ‘tantamount to agreeing to Hamas organising for the next massacre’.
The deal is aimed at implementing the long-stalled second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan brokered by Trump, who pledged that it will lead to Hamas’s ‘complete disarmament’.
In a post on social media, he wrote: ‘Today, the Board of ‌Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE
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