Wed 04 February 2026:

Israeli media outlet Haaretz is reporting that the army has recently established collection points along the “yellow line”, marking the area where Hamas is expected to surrender its weapons to the International Stabilization Force under the Trump-brokered “ceasefire” plan.

Hamas has refused to disarm, given ongoing Israeli violations of the “ceasefire”.

Trump’s 20-point Gaza plan states that once all captives are returned, Hamas members who decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage under the plan. The plan also states that aid must flow “freely” into the enclave, and the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is to be reopened.

Last month Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan met Hamas officials in Ankara and discussed the second phase of the ceasefire agreement and humanitarian conditions in the enclave.

The minister briefed the Hamas officials about Turkiye’s efforts in international platforms, including Trump’s Board of Peace, to protect the rights of Palestinians in Gaza, the source added.

Turkiye’s official Anadolu news agency reported that Fidan said efforts to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza “would continue with determination”.

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We never agreed to disarm, no one’s raised it with us directly

Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said last Wednesday that Hamas never agreed to disarm.

“We haven’t discussed the weapons yet; no one has spoken to us directly about it. We haven’t spoken with the American side or the mediators on this issue, so we can’t talk about what it means or what the goal is,” Abu Marzouk told the Qatari outlet, Al Jazeera.

The senior official said a Hamas agreement to hand over its weapons “never happened, not for a single moment did we talk about the surrender of weapons, or any formula about destroying, surrendering, or disarmament.”

If Hamas was not disarmed in two years of war, “how can they obtain it through negotiations?” he asked.

Abu Marzouk indicated some disarmament was open for discussion, however, saying that at the negotiating table, “we will discuss which weapons will be removed, what will be removed, how they will be removed.”

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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