JERUSALEM, Israel – Officials in Egypt and Israel are expressing widely divergent views on what the Trump Gaza peace plan is calling for in terms of disarming Hamas. The division comes as Hamas returned another hostage's body of one of the non-Israelis who were kidnapped on October 7th, 2023, reducing the number of those still being held to six.

Egypt's head of public diplomacy, Diaa Rashwan, insists that the Trump plan doesn't specify the complete disarmament of the terror group, according to a report in Israel's Arutz Sheva.

“Trump’s plan addresses the issue of disarming Hamas or ‘freezing’ its weapons to defensive or offensive arms, and this matter is subject to negotiation," Rashwan said.

He told Al-Arabiya, “If an international force is required to collect weapons (from Hamas

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