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Hamas wants no role in governing Gaza: Spokesperson
Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, Hazem Qassem, says the Palestinian group does not wish to join any administrative role within the governance of the enclave.
In a statement, Qassem said that Hamas agreed to form a “community support committee” to take over governing Gaza.
“We call for the rapid formation of the Community Support Committee until the formation of the Gaza Management Committee. Government agencies in Gaza continue to perform their duties, as the vacuum is very dangerous,” Qassem said.
“Government agencies will continue to perform their duties until an administrative committee is formed and agreed upon by all Palestinian factions. Discussions are under way with mediators to arrange for the second phase of negotiations,” he added.
Moreover, Qassem said the second stage of the ceasefire deal was “complex” and steps had begun to form a national consensus over essential points.
US vice president to visit Israel to push discussions on next stage of Gaza deal
The US vice president, JD Vance, along with the envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, are reportedly travelling to Israel on Monday to discuss the implementation of the second part of the deal.
However, the Israelis say they’re not going to discuss anything related to Trump’s 20-point plan until all of the bodies of Israeli captives are brought back from Gaza.
It’s worth mentioning that Hamas has said they’re trying to do what they can, but this needs assistance on the ground in the form of heavy machinery, much of which has been destroyed during Israel’s war on Gaza, and search teams to help excavate these remains of the captives.
Much of Gaza, of course, lies in rubble and ruins.
Trump will put enough pressure on Israel to keep Gaza status quo: Ex-US official
Henry Ensher, a former US ambassador to Algeria, says “it’s not at all clear” whether Netanyahu wants “a state of peace where development and new political arrangements can start” in the Gaza Strip.
“It seems at least likely that they prefer to maintain this state of war. And, of course, Hamas is giving them an excellent excuse. They signed up to return all the hostages, living and dead, and now they’re saying they can’t do it,” Ensher said.
But Ensher told Al Jazeera that the Trump administration has staked its credibility on the ceasefire deal, and as such, it will continue to apply pressure on Israel to abide by the agreement.
“But honestly, they’re likely to go on to look at other things – for example, like the Ukraine war – with a higher priority as long as there’s relative calm in Gaza, and we’re not seeing a situation in which Israelis and Palestinians, especially, are dying in large numbers,” he said.
“If the status quo remains as it is, I suspect you will see the US government maintaining enough pressure to maintain the status quo, but, frankly, not much more than that. The idea of pushing onto these very difficult political arrangements [in the deal] – man, that’s tough.”
The status quo is only in Netanyahu's favor. The genocide will go on at a lower, less news-worthy, scale. Winter is coming, no shelter is being let in, 300 trucks a day is still not enough to maintain the population much less recover. Diseases, malnutrition, starvation, no health-care, no medications, Palestinians will keep dying.
