Hamas disarmament

Board of Peace preparing for Gaza field survey to find locations for Hamas weapons handover

Security officials familiar with the details of the regional process said there was an enormous gap between Hamas's conduct and US aspirations to advance reconstruction in exchange for disarmament.

 Members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas and mourners attend the funeral of Al-Qassam fighters who were killed during the war between Israel and Hamas in the Al-Shati camp, in Gaza City, February 28, 2025.
A Palestinian Hamas terrorist stands guard as Palestinians walk on a street during Eid al-Fitr, in Gaza City, March 20, 2026

One year after Trump's ceasefire, the next challenge in Gaza is still unclear - analysis

President Isaac Herzog speaks at an October 7 memorial at the site of the Nova Music Festival three years later.

Herzog attends memorial at Nova festival site, calls for international cooperation to disarm Hamas

Terrorists from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad stand on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City, March 20, 2026.

Hamas, PIJ, Mohammed Dahlan form electoral coalition despite Hamas pledge to cede Gaza rule


IDF keeps killing Hamas commanders, but their units were already defeated in Gaza - analysis

The IDF has repeatedly declared Hamas units defeated, yet commanders of those same units continue to emerge and be targeted, raising questions about Hamas’s ability to rebuild its forces.

Smoke and flames rise from a house during an Israeli strike, carried out after the IDF warned residents to evacuate the area, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 9, 2026.

Israel killing Hamas officials will not lead to group's elimination, BoP source tells 'Post'

“The Board of Peace wants the complete dismantling and elimination of Hamas. Israel is eliminating individual Hamas members, but not Hamas itself,” the source warned.

Residents attempt to extinguish a fire following an Israeli airstrike that hit a vehicle in Gaza City, August 31, 2026.

US still committed to disarming Hamas, source says, after Katz claims it will not happen - report

"There is no need to believe or guess," the source told KAN News. "Only to cooperate with the Peace Council's plan to remove Hamas from all its weapons and rule in Gaza."

Defense Minister Israel Katz attends a plenum session and a vote on a bill to split the duties and powers currently held by the attorney general between two separate officeholders, at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 15, 2026.

WATCH: Netanyahu visits IDF Gaza outpost, pledges to continue Hamas disarmament effort

Netanyahu stressed that the Gaza Strip will "no longer pose a threat to Israel," noting that the goal has "largely been achieved."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits an IDF outpost in the Gaza Strip on September 2, 2026.

The Board of Peace plan for Gaza: Will it really disempower Hamas? - opinion

That August 17 meeting brought Netanyahu together with the three-man team of Kushner, Mladenov, and Sir Tony Blair. They had just returned from an unprecedented negotiating session in Egypt.

US President Donald Trump poses with the signed agreement at a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a US-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, October 13, 2025.

PM, Defense Minister deny any instruction exists to reopen Erez Border Crossing into Gaza Strip

There are preparations to open the crossing on September 1, but it still requires final approval, sources from COGAT told The Jerusalem Post.

View of the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza, which has been closed since the October 7 massacre, on December 16, 2025.

Gaza: It is time to break the strategic deadlock

After October 7, we can no longer afford to base Israel’s security on promises. We need a mechanism capable of guaranteeing it for decades to come.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Gaza Board of Peace Director Nickolay Mladenov, May 13, 2026.

The Middle East’s ‘peace architecture’ may be giving rise to an anti-Israel bloc - opinion

Instead of building peace, we are building a system in which Israel's enemies keep their weapons while Israel's friends gain the power to tell Israel when it may use its own.

World leaders gather during a charter announcement for US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026

Lebanese Shiite scholar says Hezbollah brought 'destruction' and 'hatred' to Lebanon

When asked on the likelihood of Hezbollah disarming, Fuani showed optimism, citing the aftermath of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's successful overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.

Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah wave flags while commemorating Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, May 25, 2026.

Israel denies approving ISF's entry into Gaza without 'complete disarmament of Hamas'

The Prime Minister's Office said that there will be no reconstruction "of any kind" in the Gaza Strip without the complete disarmament of Hamas.

Displaced Palestinians walk past tents and destroyed buildings near the beachfront in Gaza City in August.