Yedioth Ahronoth revealed troubling details in the Gaza peace agreement, stating that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set basic conditions but made very large concessions and hid the truth from the public.

The newspaper wrote that the basic conditions Netanyahu set to end the war guarantee “complete surrender to Hamas,” but “Hamas was not disarmed, Gaza was not disarmed, nor was the sector evacuated,” according to reviewed documents.

It questioned: “If these conditions are fundamental, why did Netanyahu concede on them?” An intelligence source said, “The agreement is considered successful, but there are very deep concessions.”

The source, who has close contacts between the intelligence community, defense establishment, and political level, added, “The public deserves honest answers to the remaining central questions, which the government and Netanyahu’s supporters seem to struggle to answer.”

These points were not made to claim the agreement is bad or should not be signed now. On the contrary, the return of the captives home alone will mark the beginning of a journey to change the course of Israel and the entire region for the better. However, there is a good reason behind all the effort to convince us all that black is white and night is day, according to the intelligence source.

Yedioth Ahronoth commented on a document published on the government website last Friday afternoon, which is a summary of a government decision made following a ministerial poll. It said, “Everything the government did not want the public to know — for example, precise withdrawal maps, the mechanism for monitoring agreements, and a comprehensive investigation into the bodies Hamas claims it cannot locate — was moved to a secret annex.”

The Hebrew site report continued: “For example, in the agreement signed in Sharm El-Sheikh, first published by Geely Cohen on Kan 11 channel, there was a contradiction with an Israeli source and two sources from the mediating countries,” and the first section stated that “President Trump will declare the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, and the parties agreed to take the necessary steps to achieve this goal.”

The beginning of the second section said: “The war ends immediately with the approval of the Israeli government. All military operations, including air and artillery bombardment and attack operations, will cease.”

None of this was mentioned in the published government decision. This is a major difference in the essence of the agreement: the American plan explicitly speaks of ending the war, while the government decision portrays the entire process as a “plan to release all Israeli hostages.” The differences also appear in terminology — between “withdrawal” and “deployment.” “Withdrawal” means a permanent move, while “deployment” maintains operational flexibility and emphasizes the temporary nature of the location change.

The government decision states that the release of prisoners and transfer of bodies will only occur after receiving all hostages, unlike the American narrative which spoke of a parallel step.

Yedioth Ahronoth concluded that everything the government did not want the public to know about precise withdrawal maps, the international and multilateral mechanism to monitor agreement implementation, and a comprehensive investigation into the fate of the bodies Hamas claims it cannot locate “was moved to a secret annex.”