Days of Silence: Gaps in the Agreement That Israel Has Yet to Address
Three days after the signing of the Hamas disarmament agreement, liquidations in the Gaza Strip continue despite the US administration's demand for a ceasefire. While many issues remain unresolved, security officials emphasize: "We will continue to eliminate imminent threats."
Official Israel is still maintaining silence regarding the Peace Council agreement on the disarmament of Hamas. Three days have passed since the agreement was signed, yet no official source has addressed the gaps between the terms reached and the Israeli position. According to an investigation by "Hayom", these gaps are numerous and significant.
Liquidations are continuing in practice, despite the American demand to cease fire in the Gaza Strip throughout the last 24 hours. One of the primary contradictions between the agreement's text and the Israeli position concerns the use of force by the IDF in response to threats.
A senior political source told "Hayom" this evening (Sunday):
"The IDF will continue to act to remove threats and neutralize terrorists in Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip that pose an imminent threat to the Gaza envelope communities and our forces."
A senior security official told "Hayom" after the announcement: "There is a certain dimension of surprise that the Islamic terrorist organization, for which weapons are a symbol, is willing to hand them over, even if only declaratively. This is a revolution. And let it be clear—what brought it to this is the intensity of the blow it suffered from the IDF during the war. It is a beaten organization, devoid of strategic weapons, and it has also lost public sympathy, at least in part."
Alongside this, there is concern at both the political and security levels regarding the implementation of the agreements. Conversations with senior Israeli officials reveal that there is no consensus on the issue of weapons storage, the pace of their handover, and who will receive them. Hamas is willing for the weapons to be handed over to Palestinian hands, as this softens criticism for giving them up, and it also estimates that when necessary, it will be able to regain control over them.
Despite the optimism in the Peace Council, Hamas clarified the details behind the agreement and set three key conditions for storing heavy weapons: an Israeli withdrawal, the entry of a technocratic committee, and the dismantling of the militias that assisted Israel.
Member of the terrorist organization's negotiation delegation, Ghazi Hamad, said during an interview with the pro-Iranian channel "Al-Mayadeen" that "the storage of weapons will be under the supervision of the Palestinian (technocratic) committee, and Israel will have no connection to it."
