In a statement released Sunday, Hamas said: “Yesterday, Saturday, Hamas delivered the Palestinian factions’ response to the roadmap plan that it had received from Mr. Nikolay Mladenov, representative of the Peace Council, on 19 April.”
The group said its response to the 15-point roadmap reflected a unified national position reached after extensive consultations among Palestinian factions and mediators.
The statement added that “over the past week, Hamas, the Palestinian factions, and the mediators (Egypt, Qatar, and Turkiye) held numerous meetings in Cairo, which resulted in a unified national position that was submitted yesterday.”
According to the statement, the Palestinian factions “approached the roadmap for implementing the second phase of President Trump’s plan with a high degree of responsibility and positivity.”
However, they stressed “the necessity of fully implementing the first phase in all its details, particularly with regard to the humanitarian protocol and the cessation of all forms of aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
The factions also emphasized “the need for full adherence to what is stipulated in the roadmap regarding the entry of the administrative committee, the complete Zionist withdrawal from the strip, and reconstruction, leading to the fulfillment of our people’s goals of establishing their state and attaining their right to self-determination.”
The Hamas delegation in Cairo, headed by Khalil Al-Hayya, is expected to continue its meetings with mediators and Palestinian factions.
Israel’s continued violations of the ceasefire agreement and the issue of Hamas’s disarmament remain major sticking points.
Hamas has refused to discuss disarmament until Israel complies with the terms of the ceasefire, including a full withdrawal from Gaza and international guarantees that hostilities will not resume.
Israel has continuously violated the US-brokered ceasefire agreement that took effect on 10 October, 2025, conducting daily strikes across Gaza, refusing to withdraw fully, and gradually expanding the area of the strip under its military occupation from the agreed 53 percent behind the original “Yellow Line” to approximately 60–64 percent.
Since the truce began, Israeli forces have killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians and injured more than 3,100 others, while the ongoing blockade continues to restrict the entry of humanitarian aid.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday that the number of Palestinians killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023 had surpassed 73,000, around half of them women and children.
Five deaths were reported across Gaza on Sunday alone, while more than 173,200 people have been wounded since the war began.
An Israeli strike on Saturday evening killed two Palestinians in Khan Younis. The casualties were taken to Nasser Hospital, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
The ceasefire agreement, brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States in October, was intended to end Israel’s war on Gaza and secure the return of all remaining captives held by Hamas.
Hamas has released all remaining Israeli captives, fulfilling its main obligation under Phase 1 of the agreement.
Israel, however, has not fully implemented its Phase 1 commitments, including a complete withdrawal to the agreed “Yellow Line,” a full cessation of hostilities, and unrestricted humanitarian aid flows.
It has also refused to honour its obligations under Phase 1 by preventing Palestinians from returning to the areas in Gaza that Israeli forces withdrew from.
President Trump unveiled his 20-point Gaza peace plan on 29 September, 2025, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The plan calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all remaining captives, the demilitarization of Gaza, and the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian committee to govern the strip under the supervision of the “Board of Peace,” chaired by Trump.
Israel and Hamas signed a ceasefire agreement based on the plan on 9 October, 2025. The ceasefire took effect the following day.
Since then, Hamas has said it is prepared to hand over governance of Gaza to a technocratic committee.
The resistance movement first made that declaration in January. In May, the movement reiterated its call for empowering the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) by allowing it to enter Gaza immediately, assume full responsibility, and receive the necessary funding and resources to carry out its work.
NCAG is a Palestinian technocratic body unaffiliated with any Palestinian factions, envisioned to take over the strip’s administration.
Hamas has said it is prepared to transfer administrative authority to the committee.
However, it stressed that it will not lay down its weapons before the body enters the strip, arguing that such disarmament would strip Palestinians of their right to resist and leave civilians entirely defenseless under continued Israeli occupation.
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