Hamas still says any weapons handover follows an Israeli withdrawal, not the other way around. That sequence was the live dispute in this paper's Thursday brief. Friday adds no new timetable. [1]

The August 3 Soufan Center brief 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 first. [1]

Ghazi Hamad 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. [1]

Al Jazeera reported Hamas officials tying the weapons file to Israel's withdrawal. Those lines still stand. [2] A pledge without an agreed first move is a press release. Fourteen days were allotted to write a timetable. Trump's historic language still treats consequence as precondition. [2] Until that document names who moves first, the handover remains a slogan.

Sequence first, slogan second. Until that document names who moves first, the handover remains a slogan attached to a withdrawal that has not begun. Friday adds no first mover. Sequence first, slogan second.

-- YOSEF STERN, Jerusalem