Gaza City, Palestinian Territories - Hamas on Saturday said it remained ready to proceed with a US-backed Gaza peace plan and urged pressure on Israel, which insists it did not agree with the latest part of the deal.

Hamas informed President Donald Trump's Board of Peace that it stood by the latest stage of the plan, under which the militants would hand over weapons to a nascent Palestinian governing committee in war-battered Gaza.

"Hamas and other factions have confirmed to mediators their readiness to begin implementing the agreement and move to the second phase, provided it receives Israeli approval and that Israel begins implementing the agreement," a Hamas official told the AFP.

"Hamas is urging the US administration to exert pressure on Israel to compel it to abide by the agreement and move to the second phase," the official said under the condition of anonymity.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a tough reelection fight in October and opposition from his right-wing base to the Gaza deal, said on Tuesday that Israel had not agreed to the "draft" deal.

Trump last week hailed the proposal as a breakthrough, largely because Hamas had agreed to disarm under the condition that Israel would withdraw from most of Gaza.

Netanyahu on Monday met with the Board of Peace's high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, who backtracked and said Israel would withdraw only after a full disarmament by Hamas.

Israeli operations in Gaza have killed 1257 Palestinians since October last year, when the two sides agreed to a ceasefire backed by Trump. This adds to the more than 70,000 people killed by Israel since 2023.

The actions of Netanyahu and his colleagues in Gaza have been found to constitute genocide, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity by the UN, and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court.