The US 20-point Gaza peace plan, published by the White House on 30 September 2025 and printed here, cannot possibly work for one simple reason: Hamas refuses to disarm until a Palestinian state has been established while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has never agreed that a Palestinian state could ever exist.

Clause 19 of the Trump peace plan refers to “a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” if certain conditions are met. But the BBC reports that Netanyahu says Israel will “forcibly resist” Palestinian statehood.

And on 2 August 2025 the BBC reported that Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established, in response to one of Israel’s key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. We see no possibility that this will change.

The desires of Israel and Hamas are therefore in direct conflict and since there is no sign that either of them are likely to change, peace on these terms seems totally impossible.

As we write this Hamas has not yet given its response to Trump’s proposal, but we would be surprised if it did not reject the plan for the reason above and perhaps others.

We therefore expect Israel’s inhuman genocide of the people of Gaza to continue with Trump’s full support.