Israel has voiced "serious security concerns" about a proposed Hamas disarmament deal announced last week by US President Donald Trump, even as Israeli forces continue strikes in Gaza. Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, said Israeli intelligence suggests Hamas remains committed to rebuilding its military rather than genuinely disarming, warning that a premature Israeli withdrawal could allow the group to "quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza" and potentially repeat an attack on the scale of 7 October 2023. The dispute highlights a growing rift over how the ceasefire plan should be implemented and verified.

Trump's 20-point plan requires Hamas to surrender its weapons, destroy its tunnel networks, permit an Israeli withdrawal, allow the formation of a new Palestinian technocratic government, and enable deployment of international security forces, with Hamas-run police weapons to be handed to a US-backed Palestinian committee. Spielman insisted that "disarming means physically giving up the weapons, nothing less." Israel currently controls more than 60% of Gaza's territory, and recent Israeli strikes killed at least 17 people, including children. The war, triggered by Hamas's October 2023 attack that killed around 1,200 Israelis, has since caused over 73,000 Palestinian deaths in a territory home to roughly two million people.