The framework Hamas approved on 30 July divides the 47 percent of Gaza it still controls into five sectors. Weapons would be handed over and tunnels destroyed sector by sector, each step verified, and after each verification Israeli troops would pull back from the Yellow Line to the Red Line, closer to the border. It derives from the twenty point plan Donald Trump set out in September 2025.
Netanyahu rejected it, on the position that there will be no Israeli redeployment from Gaza until Hamas is fully disarmed. An official involved in the talks says the Board of Peace, the American controlled body running this, is now weighing a wholesale approach instead: the entire Hamas held area demilitarised at once, with a withdrawal to the Gaza perimeter only after the whole thing is verified. The same official says the original plan has not been abandoned.
The difference is what each side has to do first. A phased plan pays Hamas in territory for each instalment of disarmament, which is what made it acceptable to Hamas and unacceptable to Israel. A wholesale plan asks Hamas to give up everything before anything moves, which reverses the problem rather than solving it.
Jared Kushner met Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday, and a Board of Peace official says the two agreed there will be no Israeli redeployment until Hamas is fully disarmed. Nickolay Mladenov is the envoy carrying this. What is being negotiated now is not the destination, which both plans share, but which party is asked to move without a guarantee.