Gaza Peace Terms Shift as Strikes Continue
The terms of President Trump’s Gaza peace plan shifted again on Tuesday, with mediators now saying Israel would withdraw its forces only once Hamas had completed disarming — a move away from the earlier promise of parallel steps. Israel complained the plan had been negotiated without it, and an Israeli strike on Gaza City killed two people. Hamas, which backed only the original phased sequence, warned that the continued attacks were wrecking the process.
The reworded terms tilt the framework towards Israel’s insistence on disarmament before any pullback, hardening a position that Hamas rejects. The dispute over sequencing — who disarms or withdraws first, and how it is verified — goes to the heart of the mistrust that has doomed previous efforts. With the strikes continuing beneath the diplomacy and the window Washington set narrowing, the plan looks fragile. The casualty figures came from Palestinian sources and could not be independently verified. Watch whether the sequencing can be bridged or the framework collapses.