Lay down their arms to escape the tunnels alive: Washington tests Hamas

In order to keep his "peace plan" alive beyond the first stage, which is about to come to an end, Donald Trump will need to find out how to combine two contradictory imperatives.The first is the most delicate issue in his 20-point Gaza plan: disarming Hamas. The second: avoiding at all costs Israel's resumption of its attacks on the Palestinian enclave.Israel's daily violations of the truce aside — in which it has killed hundreds of people — two incidents in recent weeks have highlighted the fragility of Trump’s plan.On Oct. 19, the Israeli army launched bombardments across the Strip after it accused Hamas fighters of firing an anti-tank missile at a vehicle near Rafah, killing two Israelis. An investigation by Drop Site News revealed that the incident had actually been a case of an Israeli bulldozer driving over an...