Peace Deal Collapse? Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza Day After Hamas Disarmament Announcement | TDJ NEWS

Just 24 hours after diplomatic celebrations in Washington over a historic breakthrough in the Middle East, bombs are falling once again across Gaza. Fresh Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks have struck multiple areas across the Gaza Strip, leaving Palestinians dead and dozens injured in Diya al-Bala, Nusarat and Khan Yunis. What makes these attacks so critical is their timing. They occurred just hours after Hamas formally accepted a draft peace agreement brokered under US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, agreeing in principle to a phased complete disarmament. The rapid return to violence has sparked an urgent debate across the globe. Is Trump's Board of Peace deal completely meaningless on the ground? To understand why this agreement is fracturing almost immediately, we have to look at the massive gap between high-level diplomatic announcements in Washington and the military reality on the ground in Gaza. President Trump framed the agreement as a historic step towards ending the war when he announced it. Under the 20-point framework negotiated in Cairo alongside regional mediators, Hamas agreed to surrender heavy weaponry and military infrastructure to a transitional administrative committee, paving the way for an international stabilisation force and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops. However, the deal instantly revealed a major sequencing flaw. Hamas representatives made it clear that physical disarmament would only occur after or alongside a complete and irreversible Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza, but Israeli officials maintain that military operations will continue as long as combatants and infrastructure remain active. Israel did not halt its daily strikes following the announcement, treating the peace plan as a future framework rather than an immediate enforceable ceasefire. Furthermore, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing an explosive political crisis at home. His far-right coalition partners have threatened to collapse the government if he agrees to pull Israeli forces out of Gaza or leave any administrative leverage to external Palestinian entities. For Netanyahu, stopping military operations right now carries an immediate threat of political ruin. This structural disconnect is why diplomatic declarations made at summits struggle to translate into peace on the ground. Without an active, deployed international peacekeeping force or a strict, mutually-enforced timeline, announcements from Washington remain paper agreements while combat operations proceed uninterrupted. For the millions of civilians trapped in Gaza, the immediate reality has not changed. A diplomatic breakthrough announced on Truth Social or at Camp David means very little when drone strikes and artillery shells hit residential areas just 24 hours later. The coming days will prove whether Trump's Board of Peace has the actual leverage to enforce a lasting ceasefire and compel both sides to stick to the roadmap or if this agreement will join a long history of Middle East peace plans that collapsed as soon as they met the realities of the battlefield.