Sky News Arabic reports 'understandings' between US and Hamas, under which Hamas will be recognized as a political organization.

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Steve Witkoff said the U.S. expects Hamas to immediately return the final deceased hostage as part of its obligations under the deal.

US President Donald Trump declares that Hamas has "to give up their weapons" under the Gaza ceasefire deal or "it's going to be the end of them," as he addresses his newly created Board of Peace. "Iran does want to talk, and we'll talk," he adds at the World Economic Forum in Davos, citing the US's bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities in 2025.

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

The United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned seven entities linked to Hamas’s covert support network. The sanctions add to a lengthy history of the group leveraging nongovernmental organizations and sham charities to raise funds for terrorism.

Trump launches phase two of Gaza plan focusing on demilitarization Hamas and reconstruction, but experts warn disarming Hamas remains decisive challenge.

The US government has accused six Palestinian aid organizations in the Gaza Strip of having secret ties to the Palestinian militant Hamas movement. The organizations affected are Waed Society Gaza, Al-Nur Society Gaza,

Hamas hasn’t yet begun disarming, a fact some officials believe could imperil the peace plan.

The deal would also allow leaders to leave Gaza safely under U.S. guarantees, though Israel has expressed major reservations, sources say