Hamas says won’t surrender arms, offers ‘no visible weapons’ in Gaza

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Jun 05, 2026 · 1144 words · By Mohammad Mansour

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Hamas says won’t surrender arms but only police will carry weapons in Gaza Hamas official Husam Badran, in an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, lays out what the group is ready to do ahead of Cairo talks.

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Why it matters

Hamas says it will not hand over its weapons right now, resisting ongoing disarmament demands and stating that the ultimate fate of its military arsenal will be decided following comprehensive discussions with other Palestinian factions.

Common ground

In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, offered an inside look into the group’s proposed solutions to the stalled negotiations, introducing the concept of a long-term hudna (truce).

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 17 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Hamas says it will not hand over its weapons right now”

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Multiple independent sources (RIA Novosti via web search, Khaled Mechaal's statements, and other reports) confirm that Hamas refuses to surrender its weapons.

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web search NEUTRAL — Will Hamas agree to hand over its weapons as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal?Hamas denies reports of agreeing to weapons surrender under international supervision, warns against false news.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — Moussa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency on Wednesday that Hamas refuses to surrender its weapons to either the United States or Israel.
https://www.bastillepost.com/global/article/5944465-hamas-re…

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web search NEUTRAL — A Hamas leader, Khaled Mechaal, affirms this Sunday that the Palestinian Islamist movement will not give up its weapons. He will also refuse any foreign domination of the Gaza Strip, despite calls to …
https://observatorial.com/news/world/1619761/resistance-is-t…

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Claim 2: “85 percent of Gaza’s buildings damaged or destroyed”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 3: “The disarmament of Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza remain the biggest sticking points in the United States-brokered October 2025 ceasefire plan.”

VERIFIED BY REFERENCE

Wikipedia's 'Gaza peace plan' entry confirms the existence of a Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict led by Donald Trump, and the 'January 2025 Gaza war ceasefire' entry confirms the timeline of conflict and armistices in 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A hostages-and-prisoners exchange and armistice between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip took effect from 19 January to 18 March 2025, during the Gaza war. It include…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2025_Gaza_war_ceasefir…

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Claim 4: “In a May 2026 briefing to the United Nations Security Council, Mladenov defended the plan”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 5: “Hamas is preparing to send its delegation to Cairo for renewed talks, which are set to begin this weekend.”

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The evidence provided for this specific claim consists of general Wikipedia/BBC entries about Hamas and the Gaza war, but does not provide multiple independent reports confirming the specific delegation's departure for this specific weekend.

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 7, 2023 · Hamas is an armed Palestinian group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv7w3gdy2o

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web search NEUTRAL — Hamas and Israel have engaged in the protracted Gaza–Israel conflict, as part of the broader Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Hamas has attacked Israeli civilians, including through suicide bombings as w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

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web search NEUTRAL — Since 2007, the Gaza Strip has been governed by Hamas, an Islamist militant group, while the West Bank remained under the control of the Palestinian Authority. After Hamas's takeover, Israel imposed a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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Claim 6: “When this Palestinian committee [the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG)] comes to take over the Gaza Strip, there will be no visible weapons in the streets and alleys of Gaza except the official weapons belonging to this committee, which is the official Palestinian police”

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The claim regarding the NCAG and the restriction of visible weapons to official police is corroborated by Al Jazeera and Wikipedia entries describing the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG; Arabic: اللجنة الوطنية لإدارة غزة) is a transitional body mandated by the United Nations to manage day-to-day operations of the civil servi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Committee_for_the_Adm…

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Claim 7: “Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza on Trump’s “Board of Peace”, are conditioning the transition to phase two on the disarmament of armed groups.”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Nickolay Mladenov's specific conditions for the transition to phase two of the plan.

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Claim 8: “Since the ceasefire took effect, ongoing Israeli military actions have killed 933 Palestinians and injured 2,868, raising the total death toll since October 2023 to 72,942, with 172,967 people injured.”

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Claim 9: “the roadmap explicitly dictates that “no Palestinian armed group will be required to transfer its weapons to Israel”. Instead, the decommissioning of weapons would be gradual, sequenced, and Palestinian-led, with all arms transferred to the NCAG.”

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Claim 10: “The plan commits Israel to a phased withdrawal of its forces to Gaza’s perimeter on an agreed timetable, conditional upon verified progress on decommissioning and the deployment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF)”

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Claim 11: “Husam Badran, a member of the Hamas political bureau, offered an inside look into the group’s proposed solutions to the stalled negotiations, introducing the concept of a long-term hudna (truce).”

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While Wikipedia confirms Husam Badran is a Hamas leader, the specific claim about him proposing a 'long-term hudna' as a solution to stalled negotiations is not corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence; it appears to stem from a single report context.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Husam Badran (born January 11, 1966) is the former leader of Hamas’s military wing in the northern West Bank. He was the orchestrator of several suicide bombings during the Second Intifada with the hi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husam_Badran

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau (Arabic: رئيس المكتب السياسي لحركة حماس, romanized: Ra’īs al-Maktab as-Siasi li-Ḥarakat Ḥamās), also known as the chairman of the Hamas Shura Council (Arabic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaders_of_Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Badran is an Arabic-origin surname. Notable people with the surname are as follows: Adnan Badran (born 1935), Jordanian scientist, academic and politician Hagar Badran (born 1989), Egyptian synchroni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badran_(surname)

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Claim 12: “Hamas’s spokesperson, Hazem Qassem, reiterated that Hamas is fully prepared to hand over all governance and security responsibilities to the Cairo-based National Committee.”

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Claim 13: “The upcoming Cairo meetings will gather eight key Palestinian factions to form a unified national stance. Badran confirmed the attendance of representatives from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), the PFLP-GC, the National Initiative, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), and the Democratic Reform Current affiliated with the Fatah movement.”

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The specific list of eight factions attending the Cairo meetings is reported in multiple search results (appearing to be from the same news cycle/source but repeated across results).

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web search NEUTRAL — The Hamas legislative victory led to a conflict between Fatah and Hamas, with Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatah

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... The upcoming Cairo meetings will gather eight key Palestinian factions to form a unified national stance. ... (PRC), and the Democratic Reform ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/5/hamas-says-wont-surr…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 5, 2026 ... The upcoming Cairo meetings will gather eight key Palestinian factions to form a unified national stance. ... (PRC), and the Democratic Reform ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/hamas-says-won-…

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Claim 14: “Hamas had briefly delayed its participation to demand a halt to ongoing Israeli assassinations—such as the recent killings of military commanders Izz al-Din al-Haddad and Mohammed Odeh”

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Al Jazeera explicitly reports that Hamas delayed participation due to the assassinations of Izz al-Din al-Haddad and Mohammed Odeh, and Wikipedia confirms the existence/identity of Mohammed Odeh.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip is governed by Hamas which assumed control of the territory on 11 June 2007 after seizing it from the rival Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA). The Hamas administration was fir…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_under_Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

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Claim 15: “These talks aim to salvage the ceasefire originally proposed by United States President Donald Trump.”

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Multiple sources mention the Cairo talks in the context of a plan led by Donald Trump, including reports on the 'Trump-led board' and the 'Gaza peace plan' Wikipedia entry.

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web search NEUTRAL — By Nidal al-Mughrabi. CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli planes and tanks kept bombarding eastern areas of Gaza City overnight, killing at least 11 people, witnesses and medics said on Tuesday, with Hamas leade…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/israel-bombards-gaza-cit…

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web search NEUTRAL — The military has cited threats or fire by Hamas for its attacks. A Palestinian official with knowledge of the Cairo talks said that Hamas believed Israel was exploiting the war on Iran to slip away fr…
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/03/exclusive-hamas…

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web search NEUTRAL — Talks between Hamas and the United States held in Cairo ended “without tangible progress” on advancing the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, two Palestinian sources said on Friday. The dis…
https://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/hamas-us-cairo-talks-end-wi…

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Claim 16: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is... expanding Israel’s control from 60 percent of Gaza to 70 percent or more.”

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Claim 17: “Only 150 to 250 aid trucks are entering the Gaza Strip daily instead of the agreed-upon 600”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the specific number of aid trucks (150-250 vs 600).

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