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The Cradle
JUN 24, 2026
The board has allowed Israel to evade its commitments under the US-sponsored deal and is demanding Hamas disarm amid ongoing bombardment.
The documents originate from recent negotiations between the Trump-led Board of Peace and Palestinian negotiators.
The first document contains the Palestinian team’s amendments to the Board of Peace’s roadmap for disarming Gaza’s resistance, while the second is a reply from the Board of Peace director and ex-Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, issued last week.
The Palestinian draft states that the resistance’s weapons can only be dealt with as part of a “process that guarantees the Palestinian people’s right to establish a Palestinian state and exercise their right to self-determination.”
Yet the board’s conditions state that only a disarmament first can “create conditions for a credible pathway” toward statehood.
Israel and the board demand that Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and other factions surrender their weapons before reconstruction, Israeli withdrawal, and governance arrangements can proceed.
Tel Aviv has failed to adhere to the terms of the deal by continuing to occupy Gaza, restrict aid, and bombard the strip.
Palestinian negotiators cited in the report have described talks with the Board of Peace as a bid to impose through diplomacy what Israel failed to achieve through war.
“Trump’s board has embraced a decades-long Israeli tactic of demanding detailed commitments from Palestinians on issues of security and weapons, while offering only vague suggestions of potential Israeli commitments and providing the Palestinian side no substantive recourse when Israel violates the terms,” the outlet wrote.
A Hamas official told Drop Site News that the latest response from Mladenov “reflects the occupation’s unwillingness to reach an agreement, despite the movement’s compliance with all the demands placed upon it.”
“In its current form, this paper is unacceptable and cannot serve as a basis for agreement.”
The Board of Peace responded to the report by denying that it favors the Israeli side over the Palestinian side.
According to EU officials cited by POLITICO, the board will convene in Cyprus next week to “reset” the Gaza ceasefire process after “the Iran war has completely shifted the attention in the last several months.”
Recent reports have said the Board continues to struggle in securing commitments from nations that initially pledged support.
The board has also failed in its plan to create an International Stabilization Force (ISF) for Gaza, which was largely rejected as an attempt to force regional countries into a clash with Hamas after two years of genocide failed to wipe out the resistance movement.
Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since the so-called truce was announced in Gaza in October 2025.
Israeli occupation forces have also expanded their occupation to over 60 percent of the besieged strip.
Many permanent outposts have been built, and Tel Aviv continues to obstruct aid into Gaza while significantly expanding illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is moving forward with plans to annex the territory.
In February, the Israeli government approved a land registration process allowing Israel to claim territory in the occupied West Bank as “state property” if Palestinians cannot prove ownership
Since then, scores of new illegal settlements have been approved.
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