Hamas said it is ready to move forward with a US-backed Gaza peace plan and called for pressure on Israel to comply with the ceasefire agreement. The report, published on August 9, 2026, said Israel maintains that it has not agreed to the plan’s final component.

A Hamas official told AFP that the group is willing to implement the final stage of the peace plan. Under that stage, Hamas would hand over its weapons to a newly formed Palestinian governing committee in the war-ravaged territory. The report presented this as Hamas’s stated position on carrying out the plan.

Last week, Trump praised Hamas’s agreement to disarm under the plan as a landmark step, according to the report. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, said on Tuesday that Israel had not agreed to the draft presented by the Board of Peace. The differing positions leave disagreement over the plan’s final stage.