Report: IDF Preparing Plans to Disarm Hamas Militarily
Hamas terror chief Khaled Mashaal rejects calls to disarm, a key condition of President Trump’s Gaza plan.
Amid growing ceasefire violations by Hamas, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is working on plans for a possible military operation to disarm the Gaza-based terrorist group, The Times of Israel reported exclusively.
The news comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Washington for a meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss issues concerning Gaza and Iran, media reports suggest.
On Sunday, Hamas’s chief Khaled Mashaal declared that the terrorist group won’t be handing over its weapons, thereby violating a key condition under the ceasefire deal brokered by President Donald Trump.
“As part of the second phase of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement, the Gaza Strip is to be demilitarized,” the Jerusalem Post noted recently. “Hamas is supposed to hand over control of Gaza to an agreed-upon National Committee for the Administration of Gaza.”
The Times of Israel revealed the details of a possible IDF operation:
Four months into a ceasefire with Hamas, the Israeli military is drawing up plans for a renewed offensive in the Gaza Strip to disarm the terror group by force, The Times of Israel has learned.
The US-brokered ceasefire plan reached in October foresees the demilitarization of Gaza, including the disarmament of Hamas, along with a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Strip. However, implementation of the plan has remained unclear, with Israeli officials increasingly believing that stripping Hamas of its weapons will be impossible without the Israel Defense Forces taking action.
Should hostilities renew, fighting is liable to be more intense and more widespread than previous rounds, as Israeli forces will no longer constrained by the presence of hostages on Gazan soil.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have both insisted that the terror group must give up its weapons in the near future. Trump has repeatedly asserted that Hamas “promised” to lay down its arms, and has threatened the group over the issue.
However, at least publicly, Hamas has never agreed to lay down its arms.
Israel also believes that left unchecked, the terror group will remain in power in the Strip and try to rebuild its militarily strength while tightening its grip on areas under its control. The military this month said that since the start of the ceasefire, Hamas “has violated the agreement and focused its efforts on restoring its military capabilities.”
Last month, a senior Israeli security official said that it was looking increasingly likely that the Israel Defense Forces would have to act militarily against Hamas to disarm it, as the military believed the terrorist organization will not do so of its own accord.
President Trump has made no secret of his determination to demilitarize terrorist-infested Gaza. Last month, he repeated his call for Hamas terrorists to disarm, saying that “they could do it the easy way, or the hard way.”
“Hamas must IMMEDIATELY honor its commitments, including the return of the final body to Israel, and proceed without delay to full Demilitarization,” he wrote on Truth Social. “As I have said before, they can do this the easy way, or the hard way.”
Under his 20-point plan, the president has floated the idea of disarming the Gaza-based terrorist groups through a peacekeeping force comprising Muslim and Arab militaries. However, it is unlikely that troops from Hamas-sympathizing countries, such as Turkey and Pakistan, could be relied upon to undertake the task.
President Trump revealed that Hamas lost 58,000 people during the war.
The total death count in Gaza is roughly 70,000.
President Trump, the IDF, and Hamas have now all put out figures that roughly 80% of casualties were terrorists.
pic.twitter.com/w8BZM0H7Df— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 9, 2026
Meanwhile, Hamas terrorists continue to mount almost daily attacks on Israeli troops securing the ceasefire line.
The IDF, in a statement on Tuesday, flagged Hamas’s another “blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement.” During the incident, “terrorists exited an underground tunnel shaft in eastern Rafah and fired toward IDF troops, the IDF.”
Hamas is Replenishing Military Arsenal as US Pushes Disarmament — Increasingly brazes ceasefire violations, such a storing weapons in UNRWA supplies, shows terror group is moving to fresh offensive https://t.co/orakVewhq0
— Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) February 10, 2026
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Hamas is making a serious error. Their leadership, what’s left of it, would be wise to start figuring out a way to survive and ‘retire’ in relative security and comfort. The old sloganeering, anti Zionist rhetoric, threats, terrorism and concerns about the ‘Arab street’ may still work on University Campuses but not within the Trump WH.
Goose-stepping, genocidal, Jew-hating and Christian-hating Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists/”jihadists” are gonna wage their “holy war,” against the alleged “infidel.”
1,400 years of bloodstained Islamic history, conquests, invasions, atrocities and the explicitly belligerent content of the koran, somehow still don’t suffice to educate naive, stupid, ignorant and gullible western leftists/Labour/Dhimmi-crats.
The IDF are serious. Exactly what is needed.
So much for “genocide.” Compare to 13K French citizens killed in 3 weeks of pre-D Day aerial bombardment of German assembly areas behind the landing beaches in Normandy. Three weeks. (Approx. 57K were killed during the allied campaign in France.) And they were “friendlies.” This is what happens when war comes to densely-settled & built-up areas.
Yep, exactly so. People who weren’t in Iraq, less so for Afghanistan, have no idea how much ordinance we put down and how many people we killed. The majority were active combatants but there’s a lot of what some would describe as ‘civilians’ who got smoked.
That’s the nature of modern asymmetric war, the weapons/ordinance unleashed against an enemy hiding within a populace either sympathetic to or cowed by the enemy, especially so in an urban environment. Almost every vehicular patrol/movement in Ramadi in 06-07 we’d have to light up at least one vehicle, usually more, for failing coming within the ‘bubble’. We had a dusk to dawn curfew in our sector that we enforced by putting rounds into anyone who violated it on the presumption they were doing something nefarious. I’m positive at least some of the folks we killed out of hand for violating bubble/curfew were probably not ‘guilty’ of much beyond bad timing. Tough cookies. Fallujah aside for the most part the environment we faced in 03-04 was a cakewalk in comparison to the next few years at least out west in Al Anbar.
This is why I get fired up about keyboard warrior wannabe tough guys calling for more ground combat by US Forces or worse a civil war. They’ve got little to no idea of what they are asking for. War should always be the last resort with every acceptable option pursued beforehand. If we have no option then we go all in with a non restrictive RoE and those of us who ain’t participating sit down and STFU while the DoD prosecutes a successful mission, campaign or conflict. No whining when collateral damage occurs or the innocent are killed b/c that’s baked into the decision of going to War….and for damn sure no complaints about the financial costs of the conflict or in future payments from the VA to take care of the Troops when they come back.
Almost a waste of time on IDF’s part. Hamas could fake disarmament and hide what isn’t turned over. They could also completely disarm and just rearm. They are in it for the long haul.
There are better ways to spend the time such as destroying tunnels, buildings used by Hamas especially schools, hospitals, and mosques, and building a more lethal wall around gaza.
let the UN go in there and do this task
Mark my words, the Gaza strip will be patrolled by drones and shotspotter technology. Anyone fires a weapon, and the drones will pinpoint the location instantly. Troops and drones can collapse on that location instantly.
The days of “secretly” doing thing in Gaza are just about over – AI and sensors will be able to pinpoint any illegal activity immediately and take appropriate action. All the guns will be slowly removed and not replaced.
Then it is up to the Gazans. Will they still follow a diminished and unarmed Hamas? The alternative will be to live in an open air prison.
yeah and then how will lefty “re-work” the pr to maintain that its israel that are the genociders?
Tunnels are always going to be a problem. Dig them deep enough and they become hard to spot. This is the reason why concrete is sometimes restricted and when it isn’t hamas repurposes it for tunnel creation.
Good luck, I don’t see how you could actually completely disarm the terrorists. They’ll always find something, remember that you can make pretty good bombs out of gasoline and fertilizer.
Plug’em and plant’em – the only solution that works 100% of the time.
How does Hamas still have any armed force?
Again, no frikking “Like” button…. 🙂
I seem to remember the same thing happening after multiple ceasefires near the end of the Yom Kippur War. The Muslims would agree to a ceasefire, mount a surprise attack, fail, and agree to another ceasefire, rinse and repeat for I don’t remember how many iterations. (Come to think of it El Cid experienced the same thing in Andalusia during the 11th Century. Some things never change.)