Hamas said Saturday it remained ready to move forward with a U.S.-backed Gaza peace plan, while urging pressure on Israel, which maintains it did not agree to the deal's latest provisions.
The Palestinian resistance group informed U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace that it stood by the latest stage of the plan, under which it would hand over weapons to a nascent Palestinian governing committee in the war-battered territory.
"Hamas and other factions have confirmed to mediators their readiness to begin implementing the agreement and move to the second phase, provided it receives Israeli approval and that Israel begins implementing the agreement," a Hamas official told AFP Saturday.
"Hamas is urging the U.S. administration to exert pressure on Israel to compel it to abide by the agreement and move to the second phase," the official said on condition of anonymity.
Trump last week had hailed as a breakthrough that Hamas had agreed to disarmament under the plan, with the Board of Peace saying Israel would in tandem carry out a phased withdrawal from much of Gaza.
