Trump’s Gaza deal could provide the blueprint for peace—or it could devolve amid Hamas’ refusal to disarm and Israel’s reluctance to withdraw.

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President Donald Trump has announced what he calls a breakthrough to end the war in Gaza: an agreement under which Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups would disarm, Israel would withdraw its forces, and control of the territory would pass to a technocratic Palestinian administration. This handoff and the resulting new government would be backed by an international stabilization force drawing troops from Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and Albania.

John Aziz is a British Palestinian writer and musician.