Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not withdraw from its current Gaza lines until Hamas had completely disarmed. He said Israel rejected a U.S. draft that called for disarmament to begin alongside a halt to strikes and withdrawal from areas Israel now controls. Netanyahu said Israel would not withdraw before Hamas fully disarmed. He said the Trump administration sent a draft that Israel did not accept.
Israel returned comments on the draft. The proposal paired Hamas disarmament with an Israeli halt to strikes and withdrawal. The cited reporting attributes statements to the officials or organizations making them and keeps those claims separate from events independently observed or documented.
The dispute concerns sequencing as well as the substance of disarmament. Netanyahu faces an election in October. Gaza casualty, recovery and rebuilding conditions remain severe during the ceasefire. That background explains the stakes without resolving the decisions or outcomes still pending.
Israel controls roughly 60 percent of Gaza under the cited account. The current ceasefire ended major operations and secured hostage releases but stalled on other provisions. Dates, counts and legal status remain tied to the source record because later updates may revise preliminary information.
The evidentiary limit is specific: No mutually accepted final text or implementation timetable had been published. This report therefore does not infer motive, causation, final totals, legal outcome or implementation beyond the available evidence.
The next concrete developments are a jointly acknowledged agreement text and verified changes in strikes, disarmament activity or Israeli positions. Those records will show whether the reported development changes policy, operations or public risk.
Taken together, the verified record is narrower than the broadest claims surrounding the story. Netanyahu said Israel would not withdraw before Hamas fully disarmed. He said the Trump administration sent a draft that Israel did not accept. Israel returned comments on the draft. The proposal paired Hamas disarmament with an Israeli halt to strikes and withdrawal. Israel controls roughly 60 percent of Gaza under the cited account. The current ceasefire ended major operations and secured hostage releases but stalled on other provisions. The context is equally important: The dispute concerns sequencing as well as the substance of disarmament. Netanyahu faces an election in October. Gaza casualty, recovery and rebuilding conditions remain severe during the ceasefire. This synthesis preserves what is known while keeping the stated limits visible.