New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- JERUSALEM - Three months of American diplomacy on Gaza ended Sunday with a formal rejection. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet that Israel rejects the 15-point framework the Trump administration had made the centerpiece of its Gaza peace effort, repeating a disarmament condition so open-ended that no mechanism exists to verify it has been satisfied. The decision left 73,300 dead Palestinians no closer to the end of the genocide that killed them and removed the last pretense that a US-designed peace architecture was moving toward implementation.

"Israel rejects the 15-point document," Netanyahu said in remarks distributed by his office. "We are talking about real disarmament, not fictitious d...