Will the Board of Peace announce a start date for Hamas's disarmament before Aug 21?

The Board of Peace had not announced a start date for Hamas's disarmament by August 21, 2026. The US-backed body secured Hamas's agreement in principle to disarm around July 30-31, in a deal calling for a detailed roadmap to be prepared within 14 days of all parties' approval, with the implementation timetable itself still pending. On August 4, Al Jazeera reported the Board's position that any Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would only follow completion of Hamas's disarmament, without fixing when that process would begin. In mid-August, US envoy Jared Kushner held direct talks with Hamas official Ismail Al-Hayya in Egypt on August 17, then met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, where the two agreed demilitarization should start with a Hamas weapons handover supervised by a US general, according to NBC News. Even that agreement did not fix a concrete start date, and Netanyahu had separately said Israel had not agreed to the Board's full disarmament terms. Implementation mechanics, including sequencing and verification, remained under negotiation past the question's deadline. The community unanimously voted NO on this question across 2 votes, correctly anticipating that no start date would be set in time.