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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/19/gaza-security-council-hamas-peace-plan/
Hamas Is Refusing to Disarm
(Washington Post) Editorial - The UN Security Council's endorsement of President Trump's Gaza peace plan gives a welcome legal imprimatur to the agreement. In the 13-0 vote, China and Russia abstained on account of broad Arab and Muslim backing for the plan. Hamas announced its rejection of the terms because the plan places an international trusteeship over Gaza and because the next stage calls for Hamas to lay down its weapons or be disarmed by force. Without the terrorist group's compliance, most countries will be highly unlikely to send troops to Gaza. Disarming Hamas, which started the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, has always been the thorniest step in the peace plan. There are still many miles of tunnel infrastructure for hiding weaponry. And there seems to be no plan for separating fighters from civilians. Hamas militants can blend in with the population. Hamas control over Gaza has to change for the other phases of the peace plan to have any chance of moving forward. If the Arab and Muslim countries are unwilling to step up and do the tough business of disarmament, Israel may be forced to return.