The proposal calls for Hamas and all other militant groups in Gaza to hand over all weapons, making an emerging governing authority responsible for all arms. A third person briefed on the proposal called it a comprehensive framework to ensure the "complete handover" and "full decommissioning" of arms belonging to Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, and that if Hamas accepts the proposal, it would ensure large-scale reconstruction of Gaza.
It envisages a unified Palestinian-run Gaza, which represents a rebuff to the aims of Israeli extremists, including some in the governing coalition, who have sought the deportation of Gaza's population and the building of Israeli settlements in its place. The plan's success will depend largely on whether Trump and his board of peace has the determination to implement the plan, overcoming Israeli objections and obstruction and whether a mechanism can be created inside Gaza to oversee the disarming of Hamas.
If the plan is accepted by both sides, the war is to end immediately with all captives held in Gaza alive and dead returned within 72 hours and Palestinian prisoners released. The Gaza Strip is to be temporarily governed by a Palestinian technocratic government with no role for Hamas, and Israel will not annex Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted Trump's plans, but Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi told Al Jazeera that the group has not yet received Trump's written Gaza peace plan.
The former UK Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair has been involved in discussions about running a transitional authority in Gaza if there is a ceasefire, the BBC understands. Sir Tony, who took the UK into the Iraq War in 2003, has been in high-level planning talks with all parties to end the war and on the post-conflict future for the Palestinian territory, it is understood.
