PM’s office demands Hamas ‘adhere to 20-point plan’ amid push for remaining dead hostages, terror group’s disarmament

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says Israel is committed to the ceasefire agreement with Hamas and continues to uphold and fulfill its side of the plan, after a senior member of the terror group said it could not commit to disarm.

“Hamas is supposed to release all hostages in stage 1. It has not. Hamas knows where the bodies of our hostages are. Hamas are to be disarmed under this agreement. No ifs, no buts. They have not. Hamas need to adhere to the 20-point plan. They are running out of time,” the PMO says in a statement to Reuters.

Trump’s September 29 plan calls for Hamas to immediately return all hostages before committing to disarmament and ceding governance of Gaza to a technocratic committee overseen by an international transitional body.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the plan, saying it would dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, end its political rule, and ensure that Gaza would never again pose a threat to Israel.

However, the ceasefire agreement signed by Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, Hamas and mediators in Sharm el-Sheikh on October 9 does not address the terrorist group’s disarmament or require it to free all the deceased hostages before Israel released Palestinian prisoners.