The resignation of the head of the Emergency Committee was “carried out in response to the national interest and in order to prevent Israel from making excuses,” Hamas clarified following the announcement of the committee’s dissolution on Monday.
The terrorist group also announced the transfer of the committee’s powers to the National Committee for Gaza’s administration, clarifying that the committee’s dissolution, as well as all preparations for the transfer of administrative power, had been completed.
“We took another positive step today to deny Israel’s excuses; what was done is another step to prepare the ground for the entry of the technocrats’ committee, and now the ball is in the mediators’ court,” Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told Al Jazeera.
Hamas has fulfilled its obligations, source says
The source added that it is now the responsibility of the guarantor states and the US to implement the agreement, given that Hamas has fulfilled its obligations. “Today, we are putting the ball in the mediators’ court so that they will pressure all sides to bring the national committee into the Strip,” he said.
“We call on our brothers, the mediators and guarantor countries, to take urgent action and pressure the occupation to stop its attempts to obstruct the implementation of the agreement,” Hamas said in a statement released on Monday. “We also urge them to expedite enabling the National Committee for Gaza Administration to enter the Strip and immediately carry out its duties, thereby thwarting the occupation’s plans, strengthening the resilience of our people, and alleviating their suffering.”
The terrorist organization also warned against Israel’s “continuous attempts” to “hinder the implementation of the agreement and sabotage its path, and its efforts to impose a reality of administrative vacuum with the aim of deepening the suffering of our steadfast people and thwarting efforts to restore normal life in the Gaza Strip.”
A Hamas source told Agence France-Presse that the terrorist group had “decided to dissolve the government committee in Gaza, and that a person accepted by all sides would be appointed to temporarily manage the committee’s work.”
It will become a temporary administrative committee until the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza enters and officially assumes its powers,” he added.
Additionally, Hamas sources told London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al Awsat that the new committee, also known as the “technocrats committee,” led by Ali Shaath, would enter the Strip and assume administrative powers.
Shaath was named Chief Commissioner of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza in early 2026 by Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators of the Gaza peace plan.
However, Palestinians familiar with the matter, as well as a diplomatic source who spoke with The Jerusalem Post, are wary of the move, claiming it won’t be enough for a new technocratic government to take over the Strip.
Sources from Hamas and Palestinian factions said that a new round of talks is expected to take place in Cairo in the following days with the aim of “narrowing the gaps” surrounding the second stage of the fragile ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
