Hamas Agreed to Disarm. Now the Deal Has to Survive Reality.

The breakthrough is real, but so are its conditions. Hamas said Friday it agreed to a roadmap under which weapons held by its police would move to a Palestinian technocratic administration, while heavier weapons, tunnels and military infrastructure would be dealt with later. Israel’s forces would withdraw in phases, with an international force meant to monitor compliance and support security. Yet Israel had not formally signed on, the first mechanisms still require approval and verification, and the hardest tasks are deferred. This is not disarmament completed. It is the first agreed architecture for attempting it.

Hamas says it accepted a phased disarmament roadmap tied to an Israeli halt in strikes and withdrawal from Gaza, creating a possible route out of the war—but not yet an implemented peace.