Hamas says any weapons handover follows an Israeli withdrawal, not the other way around. That sequence is the live dispute inside the Board of Peace roadmap Trump billed last week as complete disarmament. [1]

The August 3 Soufan Center brief states the plan still fails to settle timing. Israel demands Hamas disarm before it leaves the roughly 70 percent of Gaza it holds as a buffer. Hamas demands Israel pull back before it hands over arms. [1]

Ghazi Hamad, on the Hamas negotiating team, told the Wall Street Journal the group would not hand over heavy weapons. It would store them under the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. He added the movement did not agree to Israeli involvement in the process. [1]

Al Jazeera reported Hamas officials tying the weapons file to Israel's withdrawal and saying the National Committee, not Israel, would store the arms. [2]

The paper's position is mechanical. A pledge without an agreed first move is a press release. Trump's "historic" language treats consequence as precondition. The bodies still being counted in Gaza this weekend are the operational record.

Fourteen days were allotted to write a timetable. Until that document names who moves first, the handover remains a slogan attached to a withdrawal that has not begun.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem