Gaza Genocide · 01 September, 2026 · 2 min read
Jerusalem Post Says Gaza Peace Plan Is Caught Between Hamas Disarmament And Israeli Withdrawal
Gaza peace plan is caught between Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal. US diplomat Mike Waltz and Nikolay Mladenov coordinate to push Hamas disarmament and governance reforms.
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Ynetnews and Jerusalem Post cover conflict politics; Al Jazeera and Palsport switch to unrelated items
Gaza peace plan catch-22
The Jerusalem Post frames Gaza’s peace plan as a “catch-22” in which “No weapons have been decommissioned so far” and Hamas has not handed over governance. It says the plan is “caught between Hamas disarmament, Israeli withdrawal,” while the IDF continues “almost daily strikes in Gaza.”
The analysis adds that Hamas “continues to control the lives of 2 million people in Gaza,” and that “The people have no way to leave the Hamas-controlled area” because the rest of Gaza is controlled by the IDF or has active armed militias. It also quotes Mike Waltz posting on X that “Gaza cannot sustainably rebuild while Hamas retains the ability to plunge it back into war,” and says the plan requires implementing a “15-point plan for Hamas to disarm.”
ISF, obligations, and phases
The Jerusalem Post reports that US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz met with Board of Peace (BoP) High Representative Nikolay Mladenov, and it quotes Waltz describing Mladenov as a partner to “rid Hamas of its weapons” and “restore basic governance under a Committee of Palestinian technocrats.” It says Mladenov posted that the peace process can only move forward after an International Stabilization Force (ISF) is deployed, and that Hamas has to adhere to commitments under a “phases” and “performance-based” approach.
The analysis states that Israel also has commitments under the 1999 Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum, and that Mladenov says this means “every category of weapon in Gaza has to be decommissioned.” It further quotes Mladenov writing that “two days of strikes across Gaza have killed civilians and destroyed medical supplies that people depend on,” linking the statement to efforts by the Board of Peace and mediators including Egypt, Turkey, Qatar, and the US.
War coverage and Gaza-linked items
Al Jazeera’s newsfeed entry labeled “JERUSALEM DAILY: JOURNALISTS ATTACKED” includes claims that “Israeli pogroms target Palestinians and an NBC crew in the occupied West Bank.” The same Al Jazeera feed item also states that “A 3-year-old child is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza,” and it says “Ben-Gvir releases an AI video depicting Palestinian detainees.”
“A 3-year-old child is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.”
In the Jerusalem Post analysis, the author ties the inability to create a Hamas-free zone and the lack of ISF deployment to why the plan “can’t proceed according to its vision.” The piece concludes that the plan “continues to trap two million civilians under Hamas rule with no way for them to actually receive the new governance they had been promised under the plan,” while the IDF “won’t withdraw at all unless all of Hamas’s weapons are collected.”