{"id":2114,"date":"2025-10-15T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:19:04","slug":"trump-says-hamas-will-be-forced-to-disarm-or-we-will-disarm-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/trump-says-hamas-will-be-forced-to-disarm-or-we-will-disarm-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says it should take place in a \u2018reasonable period of time\u2019 amid questions over group\u2019s status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around the group\u2019s status following the signing of a peace deal meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said: \u201cIf they don\u2019t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut they will disarm, do you understand me?\u201d he added, saying it should take place in a \u201creasonable period of time\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Trump-brokered ceasefire comes into effect in Gaza this week, one of the greatest question marks remains the White House\u2019s plans to force Hamas to disarm and leave Gaza if and when the second phase of his 20-point peace deal comes into effect.<br>Palestinian volunteers and municipal workers use sweeping brushes on a road, with rubble piled behind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/israel-threatens-to-resume-gaza-genocide-after-hostage-return-says-defence-minister\/\">Israel threatens to resume Gaza genocide after hostage return, says defence minister<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bdexpress-en-bdexpress-news-news-latest-news-breaking-news wp-block-embed-bdexpress-en-bdexpress-news-news-latest-news-breaking-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"uhfa2K4Koi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/israel-threatens-to-resume-gaza-genocide-after-hostage-return-says-defence-minister\/\">Israel threatens to resume Gaza genocide after hostage return, says defence minister<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Israel threatens to resume Gaza genocide after hostage return, says defence minister&#8221; &#8212; bdexpress | en.bdexpress.news | News, latest news, breaking news\" src=\"https:\/\/en.bdexpress.news\/israel-threatens-to-resume-gaza-genocide-after-hostage-return-says-defence-minister\/embed\/#?secret=3h3zbVNiIF#?secret=uhfa2K4Koi\" data-secret=\"uhfa2K4Koi\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The US president\u2019s own remarks had suggested the group may continue to play a limited role in Gaza, as revelations surfaced of a direct meeting between White House envoys and Hamas negotiators in the highest-level summit ever held between the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, he admitted the group would have a \u201climited role\u201d in maintaining order in the short term, raising questions about how the White House may seek to wrangle a peace deal that attempts to restrain Hamas and Israel from resuming the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video released on Tuesday by Hamas showed the group\u2019s members executing eight blindfolded, bound and kneeling men whom it called \u201ccollaborators and outlaws\u201d. Agence France-Presse, which reported the video, said Hamas was targeting \u201cPalestinian criminal gangs and clans\u201d in Gaza after the signing of a ceasefire between the group and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aboard Air Force One, Trump told reporters Hamas would continue to have a limited role in enforcing security operations before phase two of the peace deal started, despite the fact his 20-point deal expressly said that the group will disarm and abandon its aim to control the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Hamas] are standing because they do want to stop the problems, and they\u2019ve been open about it, and we gave them approval for a period of time,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rebuilding of Gaza, he said, would be dangerous and difficult, suggesting the US needed to work with forces on the ground to make that possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in Egypt earlier, Trump said phase two of his peace deal had \u201cstarted, as far as we\u2019re concerned\u201d, but then said some elements would be implemented over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPhase two has started,\u201d he said. \u201cThe phases are all a little bit mixed in with each other. You\u2019re gonna start cleaning up. You look at Gaza \u2013 it needs a lot of cleanup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those remarks followed a meeting last week between senior Hamas leaders and the US\u2019s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, Trump\u2019s son-in-law, who provided a personal guarantee that Trump would restrain Israel from resuming the conflict if Hamas signed the peace agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting was held on Wednesday between Trump\u2019s envoys and a Hamas delegation headed by Khalil al-Hayya, the militant group\u2019s political leader, who survived an assassination attempt by Israel in Doha last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting, which was first reported by the US news website Axios, was the first between the White House and Hamas since the US envoy for hostages, Adam Boehler, met Hamas leaders in Doha in March to try to secure the release of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, as well as the remains of four other Americans held by the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During last week\u2019s 45-minute meeting, Witkoff reportedly told Hamas that the hostages were \u201cmore of a liability than an asset for you\u201d and it was time to facilitate a hostage exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s message is that you will be treated fairly and that he stands behind all 20 points of his peace plan and will make sure they are all implemented,\u201d Witkoff said, according to the Axios source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The direct meeting was instrumental in securing the deal, the outlet reported, with the spy chiefs of Egypt, Turkey and Qatar speaking privately with Hamas negotiators and then telling Witkoff and Kushner: \u201cBased on the meeting we just had, we have a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,234],"tags":[241,253,267,264,254,251],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-latest","tag-bdexpress","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bdexpress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}