Israel has rejected Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, with President Benjamin Netanyahu demanding a "full disarmament" of Hamas will be required for his military to withdraw.
Mr Trump's Board of Peace said it had a 15-point plan last month, but Hamas handing over its heavy weapons was dependant on Israel ending "all forms of aggression" and withdrawing from Gaza.
"Israel rejects the 15-point document," Mr Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
The Israeli military "will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens", he added.
The US President had said that "a monumental step toward lasting peace and security" when Hamas said it had accepted a disarmament plan for Gaza.
However, Mr Netanyahu said that Hamas would have to disarm before Israel withdrew its forces.
He added that it could not be some "fictitious disarmament".
The Israeli President said he was now in talks with the US about how to move forward.
President Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan
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"They have ideas; some of them are acceptable to us and some are not, and we know how to stand our ground on these matters," he said.
The Israeli president is unlikely to make concessions so close to the elections in the country.
He has faced calls from allies to hold a new cabinet vote and end the Gaza plan, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir who labelled the draft "not acceptable".
The 15-point plan from Mr Trump would have seen the introduction of the board of Peace to oversea the agreement's implementation.
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Speaking at Camp David last week, Mr Trump insisted the Israelis were on board: "We do have an understanding with Israel. Israel's very happy about it."
However an Israeli source also revealed that "the issue of Gaza did not come up" during the week's meeting between the US President and Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
A diplomatic source, speaking anonymously, said the peace plan "offers a balanced and pragmatic path forward," with "no exceptions for certain weapons or certain people."
Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas's negotiating team, framed the rejected arrangement as a sacrifice, saying the movement was making "concessions for the sake of our people in the Gaza Strip."
Despite the ceasefire arrangement, the violence in Gaza has not ceased.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least four people, two of them children, according to health officials in the territory.
The Board of Peace confirmed on X that Hamas had "agreed to a detailed Roadmap for implementing the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire."
It added: "Our focus now turns to implementation."