Israel rejects Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza, Netanyahu says

What the report says

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is rejecting Donald Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan and will not pull its forces out of the territory until Hamas is fully and genuinely disarmed. According to BBC World News, Netanyahu made the remarks at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, saying the Israeli military would keep acting against threats to Israeli troops and civilians.

The BBC reports that the dispute centers on the sequence of steps in the ceasefire roadmap: Trump’s peace framework links disarmament, an Israeli withdrawal and reconstruction, while Hamas has said giving up heavy weapons depends on Israel ending its military action and leaving Gaza. Israel has also continued strikes in Gaza since agreeing to an initial ceasefire last October.

Netanyahu said he is in discussions with US officials about the next steps, but signaled that not all proposals from Washington are acceptable to Israel. The article notes pressure from Netanyahu’s far-right coalition partners, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has criticized the draft plan.

The latest disagreement is another setback for Trump’s Gaza diplomacy and underscores how difficult it remains to bridge the gap between Israeli demands for security and Hamas’s conditions for disarmament. More broadly, the plan’s fate matters because it is tied to ending fighting, freeing Gaza from armed groups and setting up longer-term reconstruction and oversight.