US President Donald Trump has announced that the Board of Peace has reached an agreement for the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza.
Writing on Truth Social on July 30, he called the accord a “monumental step” towards lasting peace and security.
Trump said the deal would be carried out in carefully structured phases. As disarmament advanced, Israeli forces would withdraw and an International Stabilisation Force would work alongside a new Palestinian police force to secure the territory.
He said Gaza would then be run by a new Palestinian government operating with the Board of Peace, and thanked Egypt, Qatar and Turkey for their mediation.
The announcement bears directly on European spending plans. On July 13 the EU convened a Palestine Donors Group meeting in Brussels that produced pledges of €900 million ($1 billion) for early recovery in the Strip.
European Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica said at that meeting that donors could not begin proper recovery work without Hamas giving up its weapons. She added that conditions on the ground still had to allow the money to reach Gazans.
The European Council has called for the permanent disarmament of Hamas and other non-state armed groups, the full withdrawal of Israeli forces and the deployment of the stabilisation force, in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2803.
The bloc has nonetheless remained outside the Board of Peace, and no European leader helped broker the October 2025 ceasefire that the body was created to implement.
Israel had not commented on the agreement by the evening of July 30. Israeli media reported that the text did not meet the Israeli Government’s demand for weapons to be removed from Gaza and the Strip fully demilitarised before any withdrawal.
Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas negotiating delegation, told broadcaster Al Jazeera the group would not implement any part of the accord if Israeli forces failed to meet their own obligations.
Israel’s security cabinet on July 26 approved a limited entry for the stabilisation force, covering an initial deployment of about 200 personnel from countries including Morocco and Uganda around a planned pilot humanitarian zone in Rafah.
Each contributing country still requires separate Israeli approval and no deployment date has been set.
The Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023 killed some 1,200 people in Israel and about 250 were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures.
