‘Will not be involved’: Hamas to skip Gaza peace deal signing? Warns Israel against ‘aggression’
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In this aerial view, People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. Photograph: (AFP)
A senior Hamas official also stated that it is ready to fight back if Israel resumes war in the territory.
As the talks progress and the ceasefire takes effect in Gaza, Hamas said that it would not take part in the formal signing of the Gaza peace deal in Egypt. The Palestinian militant group added that it “acted principally through... Qatari and Egyptian mediators” during the ceasefire talks. A senior Hamas official also stated that it is ready to fight back if Israel resumes war in the territory.
“The matter of the official signing – we will not be involved,” Hamas political bureau member Hossam Badran told AFP in an interview on Saturday (Oct 11).
“We hope that we will not return to (war), but our Palestinian people and the resistance force will undoubtedly confront and use all their capabilities to repel this aggression if this battle is imposed,” he added.
‘Difficulties’ in Gaza peace talks?
While the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan in Gaza is being implemented, with the ceasefire in effect now, Badran stated that negotiations over phase two of the deal will be complex and difficult.
“The second phase of the Trump plan, as it is clear from the points themselves, contains many complexities and difficulties,” the political bureau member of Hamas said.
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He further added that it was “absurd” for the Palestinian militant group to leave Gaza after the war ends.
“Talk about expelling Palestinians, whether they’re Hamas members or not, from their land is absurd and nonsense,” he said of Trump’s peace plan that also proposes the disarmament of Hamas.
Hamas says disarmament ‘out of the question’
Hamas also said that disarmament as part of Trump’s Gaza plan was “out of the question” and “not negotiable”. A senior official told AFP, “The proposed weapons handover is out of the question and not negotiable.”
Meanwhile, US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are currently in Israel to oversee the ceasefire in Gaza.
