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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) \u2014 Israel has shared \u201cserious security concerns\u201d with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas<\/span>, an Israeli official told The Associated Press on Sunday in some of the first public comments since U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement<\/span> earlier this week. <\/p>\n

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Doron Spielman, spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister\u2019s office, told the AP that Israel\u2019s intelligence assessment is that Hamas remains committed to rebuilding its military rather than genuinely demilitarizing. He said the Israeli military would not withdraw from Gaza \u2014 where it controls more than 60% of the territory \u2014 before Hamas disarms. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur assessment is that if we redeploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, once again threaten Israeli communities, and seek to carry out another Oct. 7-style attack,\u201d he said, referring to the attack in 2023 that triggered Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisarming means physically giving up the weapons. Nothing less,\u201d Spielman said. <\/p>\n

His comments come days after Hamas said that it would begin disarming as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed nine months ago to end the nearly three-year-long conflict. It marks a potential breakthrough in ending the conflict, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines remain.<\/p>\n

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Hamas says it has agreed to disarm but the process is littered with obstacles <\/h2>\n

Trump\u2019s 20-point ceasefire plan<\/span> calls on the militant group to surrender its weapons and destroy its vast network of tunnels. It also envisions Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza, the arrival of a new technocratic Palestinian government, deployment of an international security force and the rebuilding of the battered Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n

Hamas disarming has been a sticking point and has deadlocked negotiations for months. In announcing the deal on social media, Trump said it would be carried out in \u201ccarefully structured phases.\u201d <\/p>\n

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A copy of the agreement obtained and verified<\/span> by the AP said that all weapons held by the Hamas-run police will be transferred to the U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic committee, known as the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza<\/span>, upon its arrival in the enclave. It\u2019s not clear when that would happen since it is contingent on other steps.<\/p>\n

A process to decommission and store heavy weapons and to dismantle military production sites and tunnels will begin after the arrival of the Palestinian committee and the deployment of international forces. The process will be linked to a phased Israeli withdrawal, according to the agreement.<\/p>\n

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The areas Israel controls in Gaza have been mostly destroyed and depopulated<\/span>. Most of the territory\u2019s 2 million Palestinians are in the other part, where hundreds of thousands live in squalid tent camps and destroyed neighborhoods. <\/p>\n

Israel appears unlikely to pull back significant forces or make other concessions ahead of its October elections<\/span>. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/span> faces a tough reelection battle, with opponents accusing him of failing to prevent the Oct. 7, 2023, attack<\/span>, and his far-right coalition partners urging him to keep up the pressure on Hamas and leave forces in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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