Hamas says it has agreed to disarm after Trump announces the Board of Peace deal

Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Board of Peace, which he created and chairs, had reached an agreement on the complete disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. A senior Hamas official told the BBC the movement had accepted the plan and that a formal statement would follow; Israel had not commented at that point. The agreement belongs to the second phase of the US-brokered ceasefire, which also covers an Israeli withdrawal and reconstruction, and Trump thanked the mediators Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye.

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