Senior officials from rival movements Fatah and the Palestinian terror group Hamas met in Cairo to discuss the formation of a commission to manage post-war Gaza, an Egyptian security source was quoted as saying. by the Egyptian television channel Al Qahera News TV on Saturday.
The talks are part of Egypt’s mediation efforts to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and to expand humanitarian access to the enclave.
Leaders of Hamas and Fatah, a faction of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas, met in Cairo last month to discuss the formation of the commission based on a proposal put forward by Egypt , but the talks were adjourned for further discussion, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters.
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According to these sources, the commission would be composed of independent Palestinian figures, not aligned with any particular movement, which would help answer the question of who will control the Gaza Strip once the war ends.
Israel rejects any role for Hamas in Gaza after the war ends and has said it does not trust Abbas’s rival PA to control the enclave.
Mediators, notably Egypt and Qatar, with the support of the United States, have not yet succeeded in obtaining a truce that would end the war and facilitate the release of Israeli and foreign hostages held by Hamas, in exchange of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated for endangering security in Israel, in particular for terrorism.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas approaches the podium at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 26, 2024. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the war would continue until Hamas was dismantled. The terror group demanded an end to the war and rejected any “truce for hostage release” deal that did not include an initial commitment by Israel to end hostilities and withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip. , which, according to Jerusalem, would leave Hamas free to plan another barbaric and sadistic assault on October 7, 2023, during which some 6,000 Gazans including 3,800 terrorists killed more than 1,200 people, mainly civilians, kidnapped 251 hostages of all ages, and committed numerous atrocities and using sexual violence as a weapon on a large scale.
Hamas politician Izzat al-Risheq rejected proposals for limited or temporary truces as
“subterfuge”.
“We are open to any proposal or idea guaranteeing the cessation of aggression and the withdrawal of the occupying forces [la présence israélienne] of Gaza,” Risheq said in a statement.
More than 43,000 people have died in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. The figures released by the terrorist group are unverifiable, and they reportedly include its own terrorists, killed in Israel and Gaza, and civilians killed by the hundreds of rockets fired by the terrorist groups that fall inside the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it has killed 18,000 terrorists in combat. The IDF also claims to have killed a thousand terrorists inside the country on October 7.
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