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US raising pressure on Hamas to disarm as phase 2 of ceasefire deal launches while Israel yet to act on withdrawal, aid.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n President \u200dDonald Trump has issued a new demand, accompanied by threatening language, that Hamas disarm, as the second phase of the United States-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel gets underway.<\/p>\n Trump pledged on social media late on Thursday to achieve a \u201ccomprehensive\u201d demilitarisation Hamas, threatening the Palestinian group if it fails to do so, and demanded the return the remains of the last Israeli captive.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Meanwhile, Israel is yet to implement its responsibilities under the agreement to withdraw its forces and allow more aid into Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cHamas must IMMEDIATELY honor its commitments, including the return of the final body to Israel, and proceed without delay to full Demilitarization,\u201d Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. \u201cAs I have said before, they can do this the easy way, or the hard way.\u201d<\/p>\n Washington has repeatedly said it expects Hamas to fulfil its remaining obligations under the first phase of the ceasefire deal, including the return of the body of the last deceased Israeli captive, Ran Gvili.<\/p>\n In phase two of the ceasefire deal, which Washington declared was underway on Wednesday, the US says it willtackle the disarmament of Hamas \u2013 which has refused to give up its arms while Israel still occupies Gaza territory \u2013 and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n Trump said Hamas\u2019 weapons would be taken and the group\u2019s network of tunnels dismantled with the support of Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar. However, it is unclear how that goal could be achieved.<\/p>\n For the Palestinians, the central issue remains Israel\u2019s full military withdrawal from Gaza \u2013 a step included in the framework deal but for which no detailed timetable has been announced.<\/p>\n Israel has continued to carry out deadly attacks across Gaza in violation of the ceasefire and has so far refused to withdraw from the so-called \u201cYellow Line\u201d in eastern Gaza, an informal boundary separating more than 50 percent of the territory that remains under Israeli military control from the rest of the Strip.<\/p>\n Under the second phase of the ceasefire deal, announced by special envoy Steve Witkoff, Gaza is to be administered by a 15-member Palestinian technocratic committee operating under the supervision of a so-called \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d to be chaired by Trump.<\/p>\n The US president has reaffirmed his backing of \u201ca newly \u2060appointed Palestinian Technocratic \u200bGovernment\u201d in Gaza. \u201cThese Palestinian leaders \u200care unwaveringly committed to a PEACEFUL future!\u201d, he wrote.<\/p>\n Gaza, whose borders and access points remain under Israeli control, continues to face severe shortages of food, clean water, medicine and fuel.<\/p>\n While Trump claimed the ceasefire, brokered last October, has allowed for \u201crecord levels\u201d of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, aid agencies say Israel has not allowed the volume of humanitarian assistance envisaged under phase one.<\/p>\n Most Palestinians in Gaza remain fully dependent on humanitarian aid. Israel has curtailed its arrival by suspending permits for more than three dozen aid organisations.<\/p>\n Israel has an obligation to ensure the \u201cbasic needs\u201d of the population in Gaza are met, according to an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).<\/p>\n Some humanitarian aid has been allowed in, but UN officials say the relief is nowhere near what is needed to ease a humanitarian disaster and an Israeli-induced famine in parts of the enclave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n US raising pressure on Hamas to disarm as phase 2 of ceasefire deal launches while Israel yet to act on withdrawal, aid. President \u200dDonald Trump has issued a new demand, accompanied by threatening language, that Hamas disarm, as the second phase of the United States-brokered ceasefire deal with Israel gets underway. 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