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

A Hamas official told AFP that the group had informed US 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 the war-battered territory.

Trump last week had hailed as a breakthrough that Hamas had agreed to disarmament under the plan, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel had not agreed to the "draft" presented by the Board of Peace.