Cairo: After Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu threw his support behind the US peace plan for Gaza, the question is whether Hamas will agree.

Hamas faces a bitter trade-off — the proposal demands that the militant group effectively surrender in return for uncertain gains. But if it rejects the deal, the US could give Israel an even freer hand to continue its punishing campaign in the already devastated territory.

Scroll down to read the full text of the Gaza plan released by the White House.

Under the proposal, the militant group would have to disarm in return for an end to fighting, humanitarian aid for Palestinians, and the promise of reconstruction in Gaza — all desperately hoped for by its population.

But the proposal has only a vague promise that some day, perhaps, Palestinian stateh

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