{"id":14760,"date":"2026-01-29T19:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-says-hamas-going-to-disarm-says-group-big-factor-in-hostages-return\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:32:47","slug":"trump-says-hamas-going-to-disarm-says-group-big-factor-in-hostages-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-says-hamas-going-to-disarm-says-group-big-factor-in-hostages-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Hamas \u2018going to disarm\u2019, says group big factor in hostages&#8217; return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"storyParagraphFigure\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"content\">United States President Donald Trump on Thursday provided an update as the second phase of ceasefire between Israel and Hamas begins.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"artImage leadImage\">\n<div class=\" \"><picture class=\"leadImageClass\"><source media=\"(min-width:768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/ht-img\/img\/2026\/01\/29\/550x309\/Trump-4_1769714519115_1769714544192.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump listens during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci) (AP)\"><\/source><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class>President Donald Trump listens during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci) (AP)<span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"content \">The US President said that it &ldquo;looks like&rdquo; Hamas is willing to give up weapons, something that has not yet been confirmed by the group yet. &ldquo;A lot of people said they&rsquo;ll never disarm. It looks like they&rsquo;re going to disarm,&rdquo; AFP cited Trump as saying in a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">This came after Trump asked his special envoy Steve Witkoff, sitting in the side of the room, to provide an update on the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Also Read | Trump and Kushner&rsquo;s real estate push in Gaza: &lsquo;No plan B&rsquo; for &lsquo;beautiful piece of property&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Witkoff said that Hamas was going to demilitarize, adding, &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the terrorists out of there&hellip;&rdquo; &ldquo;They&rsquo;re going to give it up. They&rsquo;re going to give up the AK-47s,&rdquo; AFP cited Witkoff as saying to Trump. &ldquo;They will because they have no choice,&rdquo; the special envoy added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content \" readability=\"35\">\n<h2>Trump highlights Hamas&rsquo; cooperation in return of hostages<\/h2>\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump has also highlighted Hamas&rsquo; cooperation during the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, wherein bodies of Israeli hostages were returned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p class=\"content \">The body of the last Israeli hostage, Ran Gvili, was brought back by the Israeli forces earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">&ldquo;They did help us with those bodies, getting them back, and that family is so grateful,&rdquo; the US President said, according to AFP. Hamas has also said that the return of Gvili&rsquo;s remains showed the group&rsquo;s commitment to the ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">However, so far, the group has not confirmed whether it would be following through with disarmament. While Hamas has previously said that disarmament is a red line, they have signalled that they would be open to handing over weapons to a Palestinian governing authority, according to the AFP report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub><\/sub><\/p>\n<div>Trump says Hamas &lsquo;going to disarm&rsquo;, says group big factor in hostages&rsquo; return<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump on Thursday provided an update as the second phase of ceasefire between Israel and Hamas begins. President Donald Trump listens during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci) (AP) The US President said that it &ldquo;looks like&rdquo; Hamas is willing to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-says-hamas-going-to-disarm-says-group-big-factor-in-hostages-return\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump says Hamas \u2018going to disarm\u2019, says group big factor in hostages&#8217; return&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}