{"id":34851,"date":"2026-08-09T17:43:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34851"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T12:43:29","slug":"israel-rejects-trumps-15-point-plan-for-gaza-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34851","title":{"rendered":"Israel rejects Trump\u2019s 15-point plan for Gaza, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2026-08\/260809-netanyahu-nd-42565f.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-37744b\" class=\"body-graf\">Israel will not accept the 15-point plan for Gaza set out by President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/europe\/trump-board-of-peace-countries-davos-cost-nato-what-know-rcna255433\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Peace<\/a>, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-6a0d5a\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cI want to clarify this: Israel rejects the 15-point document. I have heard people saying, \u2018You didn\u2019t say that.\u2019 So here I am saying it again,\u201d he told a Cabinet meeting, referring to the peace plan set out by Trump last year. \u201cThe IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is disarmed,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-43c212\" class=\"body-graf\">Trump, who last month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/gaza\/trump-says-peace-plan-will-lead-hamas-disarmament-israel-support-uncer-rcna590151\" target=\"_blank\">touted a breakthrough in his Gaza peace plan<\/a>, said that Hamas has agreed to lay down arms. However, the Board of Peace\u2019s proposal calls for a phased withdrawal of Israel\u2019s troops from Gaza alongside the disarmament of Hamas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-01cf17\" class=\"body-graf\">Netanyahu said that Israeli forces are not going anywhere until Hamas completely disarms first.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-68e979\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cWhen I say Hamas must be disarmed, I mean heavy weapons, lighter weapons, all weapons. We are talking about genuine disarmament, not a fictitious one,\u201d Netanyahu said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-65ce86\" class=\"body-graf\">Hamas had last month said that it would disarm but only after Israel withdraws completely and stops all hostilities. The group also said that laying down its heavy weapons would come later in the process, conditional on the establishment of a Palestinian state. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-333125\" class=\"body-graf\">Netanyahu, meanwhile, reaffirmed that \u201cas long as I am Prime Minister, there will be no Palestinian State.\u201d The leader is currently facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/israel\/israel-elections-netanyahu-far-right-minister-smotrich-orthodox-army-rcna591327\" target=\"_blank\">domestic political battle for survival<\/a> ahead of elections set for October, with the status of the Gaza and Iran conflicts likely to prove pivotal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-787955\" class=\"body-graf\">The explicit rejection of the peace plan, frequently touted by Trump as a key foreign policy achievement, also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/israel\/netanyahu-faces-angry-voters-home-irate-trump-abroad-rcna348934\" target=\"_blank\">comes after months of growing tensions<\/a> between the White House and Israel\u2019s leadership over Iran. The White House did not immediately comment on the remarks.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-3883f1\" class=\"body-graf\">Responding to Netanyahu\u2019s statement Sunday, senior Hamas official Basim Naeem said that the group expects the meditators and the U.S. to \u201cexert pressure\u201d on Netanyahu and his government to abide by the roadmap and \u201cprevent him from obstructing the process for domestic political and electoral considerations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-9a61b8\" class=\"body-graf\">Hamas, he said, remains committed to the Board of Peace\u2019s roadmap, which reflected a sense of \u201cnational responsibility\u201d in consideration of the \u201cinterests of the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-e4bc3f\" class=\"body-graf\">Meanwhile, Netanyahu said of the disagreements: \u201cWe are currently discussing this issue with the Americans. They have ideas; some of them are acceptable to us and some are not, and we know how to stand firm on these matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-193f78\" class=\"body-graf\">Despite agreeing to halt strikes last October, Israel has continued its deadly strikes of the enclave. On Saturday, recovery operations concluded at the Karam Building in Gaza after 19 dead bodies were found under the rubble, according to the Gaza civil defense. Israel and Hamas both regularly accuse the other of breaching the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-f422e0\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">Over 73,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, according to the enclave\u2019s health officials, including over 1,200 people since the ceasefire began in October. 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I have heard people saying, \u2018You didn\u2019t say that.\u2019 So here I am saying it again,\u201d he told a Cabinet meeting,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-08\/260809-netanyahu-nd-42565f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}