ISRAEL has rejected the US’s Board of Peace plan for Gaza and will not withdraw forces until Hamas fully disarms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

“Israel rejects the 15-point document,” Mr Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting, referring to a plan endorsed last month by Hamas. 

“The Israeli army will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed and will continue to thwart threats against our forces and our citizens.”

It follows a meeting last week between Board of Peace director Nickolay Mladenov and Mr Netanyahu, at which the body said an Israeli withdrawal would only take place once Hamas’s disarmament was complete.

Israel has continued near-daily deadly attacks across Gaza since agreeing a ceasefire with Hamas last October. 

Over the past 24 hours, it killed at least one person and injured eight, Gaza’s Health Ministry said, with one body also recovered from the rubble of a previous attack.

Since the ceasefire took hold, at least 1,258 people have been killed and 4,139 wounded, with the overall death toll since October 2023 standing at more than 73,300 and over 174,000 wounded.

Nineteen bodies, many of them children, were recovered from a destroyed residential building in Gaza City over the weekend, part of a slow, largely manual campaign to retrieve the dead from beneath the rubble, hampered by a shortage of heavy machinery. 

More than 8,000 people remain missing.

Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN human rights office in the occupied Palestinian territory, told Al Jazeera: “While a ceasefire was declared, there have been numerous violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law throughout this period. 

“This is not the kind of ceasefire we want to see.” 

He said reporting to the UN security council and International Criminal Court had brought only “small steps” and “minor changes,” adding: “The bigger problem has not stopped. Urgent action is needed.”

Meanwhile, Israeli authorities have issued a tender for 627 new housing units in the Kochav Yaakov settlement in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission. 

The commission said the expansion was designed to “deepen the separation between Jerusalem and its Palestinian surroundings,” and forms part of 12 illegal settlement tenders covering 1,138 housing units issued in the first half of 2026.

Palestinian monitors have recorded more than 11,000 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank since January.