Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan is still running into the same central obstacle: whether Hamas would fully disarm. According to the available details, Israel has treated complete Hamas disarmament as the essential next phase since Trump introduced his 20-point proposal about ten months ago.
That demand has kept the broader Gaza deal in doubt. The outline of the dispute suggests Hamas has indicated some openness on weapons, but not in a way that settles Israel’s core requirement. As a result, the peace effort remains stuck on a question that goes to security, power and political survival for both sides.
Deep mistrust is making that gap even harder to close. Any movement on disarmament carries major risks for Hamas, while Israel faces its own domestic and strategic pressures not to accept anything short of a clear and enforceable outcome. Those competing calculations continue to undermine hopes that the Trump-backed framework can move from proposal to implementation.
The broader problem is that the key issue may be too politically costly for either side to answer plainly. Until there is more clarity on disarmament and how any agreement would be enforced, the Gaza plan is likely to remain constrained by the same unresolved tensions that have blocked previous peace efforts.
