An American proposal to disarm Hamas by exploiting the "tunnel fighters" crisis.

The American site Axios reported from American and Israeli officials that the administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to exploit the crisis of Hamas militants trapped in areas controlled by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, in order to develop a model for disarming the movement.

The site stated that American officials have been trying in recent days to narrow the gap regarding the crisis of Hamas militants, adding that Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin joined mediation efforts regarding the crisis of the militants at the request of the Americans.

The American site clarified that the Trump administration proposed to Israel that Hamas militants surrender themselves and their weapons to a third party, with Israel granting amnesty to the militants on the condition that they do not return to military activity.

The proposal also stipulates that the militants would then be transferred to areas under Hamas control and that the tunnels would be destroyed.

Axios pointed out that the Trump administration presented the idea to Israel as a potential model for peacefully disarming Hamas.

It quoted an American official saying that the Israeli position is as rigid as usual, but we are in the midst of negotiations, while a second official urged Israel not to allow a tactical issue like the Rafah crisis to undermine a strategic goal like the Gaza agreement.

In contrast, an Israeli official told the site that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is cooperating with the United States but does not currently agree to all elements of the proposal.

The official explained that the fate of some Hamas fighters in the Rafah tunnels is either death or surrender and detention, and allowing a safe passage for some fighters is conditional on the return of the body of soldier Hadar Goldin.

Earlier, the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the Chief of Staff of the Israeli occupation army, Eyal Zamir, expressed his willingness to extract about 200 Palestinian militants from the city of Rafah in exchange for the return of Goldin's body, which has been held by the Al-Qassam Brigades since 2014.

Channel 12 also reported that studying a proposal to allow the militants trapped in Rafah to cross the "yellow line" into an area under Hamas control, in exchange for disarming them, sparked anger in political circles and led Netanyahu's office to decide to keep them within the area under Israeli control.