Peloni: Yes, five months into a 36hr deadline for Hamas to be disarmed and disbanded, we are informed that another 3 month delay is to be added on to this betrayal of the promised victory over Hamas. Recalling how the world shed an ocean of crocodile tears in supposed sympathy for the people of Gaza when Israel was poised to destroy Hamas, these same voices stood silently in shame while Hamas subsequently turned its savagery on these same Gazans while reasserting its authority over the limits of its control and mounting an endless cascade of assaults on the IDF and attempting to body snatch its way towards ever greater rewards.
by Con Coughlin • March 25, 2026
US President Donald Trump must not abandon his demand that Hamas fully disarm before going forward with his Gaza peace plan. Pictured: Hamas terrorists in Gaza City on November 2, 2025. Pictured: Hamas gunmen capturing civilian hostages from Kibbutz Beéri on October 7 2023. Photo by Bodycam footage: No human authorship – WSJ.com, Public Domain, Wikipedia
- Several members of Trump’s Board of Peace, especially Turkey and Pakistan, have expressed serious concerns about, if not outright hostility to, disarming Hamas, a factor that many believe has resulted in talks on the disarmament of the terror group being put on hold.
- Mladenov’s optimism about persuading Hamas to disarm, however, was not shared by the terrorist organisation itself. A Hamas official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that, while the terrorist group had received a written document, it denounced the initiative as a “take it or leave it” offer. He said Hamas would first wait to see the outcome of the Iran war before responding.
- Hamas’s refusal to provide a clear-cut commitment to meeting the disarmament demand, moreover, comes at a time when it continues to consolidate its hold over Gaza, especially since the start of the Iran war. In an attempt to control Gaza’s civilian population, Hamas has been enforcing price controls and managing the distribution of goods arriving from outside the Strip, moves that suggest it has no intention of relinquishing its grip over Gaza.
- Trump must not abandon his demand that Hamas fully disarm before going forward with his Gaza peace plan.
US President Donald Trump’s ambitious plan to bring lasting peace to Gaza risks being completely ruined after suggestions that members of his Board of Peace are not fully committed to disarming Hamas terrorists, a key requirement of the Trump administration’s peace plan.
Prior to the war in Iran, Trump made disarming Hamas his top priority as he sought to implement his ambitious 20-point peace plan for Gaza’s reconstruction. As the president wrote on his Truth Social platform in January in response to Hamas’s continuing prevarication over the disarmament demands, “they can do this the easy way, or the hard way.”
Since then, the Trump administration’s focus on disarming Hamas appears to have taken a back seat as the American leader has become preoccupied by the challenges of the war in Iran since launching Operation Epic Fury on February 28.
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