Published On 6/11/2025
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Last update: 03:35 (Mecca time)
The American website Axios quoted American and Israeli officials as saying that the administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to exploit the crisis of Hamas militants trapped in areas controlled by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, in order to develop a model for disarming the movement.
The website explained that American officials have tried over the past few days to narrow the gap over the Hamas militant crisis, and noted that Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin joined the mediation efforts regarding the militant crisis at an American request.
According to the American website, the administration submitted to Israel a proposal requiring that Hamas militants hand over themselves and their weapons to a third party, with Israel in return granting amnesty to the militants on the condition that they do not return to military activity.
The proposal also stipulates that the militants would then be transferred to areas under Hamas control and that the tunnels would be destroyed.
Axios explained that the Trump administration presented the idea to Israel as a potential model for disarming Hamas in a peaceful manner.
An American official told the website that the Israeli position is “tough as usual, but we are in the midst of negotiations,” and another called on Israel “not to allow a tactical issue like the Rafah crisis to undermine a strategic goal like the Gaza agreement.”
On the other hand, an Israeli official said that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is cooperating with the United States but does not currently agree to all the elements of the proposal, stressing that “the fate of some Hamas fighters in the Rafah tunnels is either death or surrender and detention, and allowing safe passage for some fighters is conditional on the return of the body of soldier Hadar Goldin.”
The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported earlier that Army Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir expressed his willingness to remove about 200 Palestinian militants from the city of Rafah in exchange for the recovery of Goldin’s body, which has been held by the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades since 2014.
Channel 12 also reported that studying a proposal to allow fighters stranded in Rafah to cross the “yellow line” into an area under Hamas control, in exchange for stripping them of their weapons, sparked anger in political circles, and prompted Netanyahu’s office to make a decision to keep them inside the area under Israeli control.