Why Hamas remains the greatest threat to Trump’s Gaza plan

 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/17/politics/hamas-israel-gaza-mcgurk-analysis

But what about Hamas in the areas above the yellow line? Trump’s deal says that even there the group must disarm and cannot remain in power in any capacity. This week, Trump has made clear he intends to hold to that, warning on Thursday that if Hamas keeps killing people in Gaza, “We will have no choice but to go in and kill them.”

This is where the way forward becomes extremely difficult. Because Hamas is not just a terrorist group that hides out to plot attacks into Israel; it is the entrenched political and security apparatus for all of Gaza and has spent the last two decades ensuring that there can be no Palestinian challenger to its reign.