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Hamas approves roadmap for Gaza ceasefire’s second phase, urges Israel to fulfill commitments
The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has announced its approval of the roadmap for the second phase of a plan by US President Donald Trump to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, emphasizing that Israel must fulfill its commitments under the ceasefire deal brokered by Trump.
Hamas made the announcement in a statement on Sunday night following talks with “mediators and guarantors” of the Gaza ceasefire agreement in Egypt. The Hamas delegation was headed by the group’s political leader, Khalil al-Hayya.
According to the statement, carried by Palestine’s Shehab news agency, Hamas’s approval was based on the interests of the Palestinian people and its desire to achieve a permanent ceasefire and ensure the complete withdrawal of the Israeli military from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas also said that it aimed to secure urgent and sustained humanitarian aid, begin the work of the administrative committee, launch reconstruction efforts, and fulfill the other agreed commitments.
The resistance movement emphasized that it had fully honored the first phase of the ceasefire agreement reached in Sharm El-Sheikh, but Israel had failed to implement the first phase of the deal and had instead escalated its military actions on the ground and deepened the humanitarian catastrophe, while explicitly rejecting the roadmap.
The group called on the mediators to compel Israel to fulfill all its obligations under the first phase, end all violations, halt killings and incursions, approve the roadmap for the second phase of President Trump’s plan, and begin setting a timetable for its implementation.
The ceasefire deal, brokered by the US, came into force in early October last year. The first phase of the agreement resulted in an exchange of prisoners and the handover of the bodies of all Israeli prisoners held by Hamas since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023.
However, despite Hamas’s fulfillment of the first phase, Israel has continued its attacks on Gaza and persisted in restricting the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip. According to official figures in Gaza, nearly 1,300 people have been killed since the truce agreement took effect on October 10, 2025.
Last month, President Trump announced that the so-called Peace Council formed under his Gaza plan had reached an agreement with Hamas on the group’s disarmament. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later rejected the agreement.
