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Middle East Eye reports fresh confusion over Gaza's ceasefire terms, after the Board of Peace's senior envoy, Nikolay Mladenov, told Israel's Channel 12 that Israeli forces won't withdraw until Palestinian armed groups hand over their weapons — reversing his own earlier position. That echoes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who told his cabinet on Sunday that troops will stay until Hamas "genuinely" disarms, rejecting President Trump's fifteen-point Gaza plan. According to the outlet, the timeline for that decommissioning remains the central sticking point as talks continue.

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