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Hamas said Wednesday (January 28, 2026) it was acceptable to transportation the governance of Gaza to a Palestinian technocratic committee, portion insisting the cardinal Rafah borderline crossing beryllium afloat reopened wrong days.
"Protocols are prepared, files are complete, and committees are successful spot to oversee the handover, ensuring a implicit transportation of governance successful the Gaza Strip crossed each sectors to the technocratic committee," Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told AFP.
The 15-member National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) is simply a squad of Palestinian technocrats created arsenic portion of the U.S.-sponsored ceasefire statement which came into effect connected October 10.
It is charged with managing the day-to-day governance of post-war Gaza and volition enactment nether the supervision of the "Board of Peace", which U.S. President Donald Trump volition chair.
The NCAG, headed by erstwhile Palestinian Authority lawman curate Ali Shaath, is expected to participate the Gaza Strip erstwhile the territory's Rafah crossing, connected its borderline with Egypt, reopens.
Hamas spokesperson Qassem added that the Rafah crossing "must beryllium opened successful some directions, with afloat state of exit and introduction to the Gaza Strip, without immoderate Israeli obstacles".
Rafah is Gaza's lone gateway to the extracurricular satellite that does not pb to Israel and is simply a cardinal introduction constituent for some radical and goods.
It has been closed since Israeli forces took power of it successful May 2024, but for a constricted reopening successful aboriginal 2025, and different bids to reopen person failed to materialise.
NCAG caput Shaath announced past week that Rafah would reopen successful some directions the pursuing week.
Mr. Qassem told AFP the "independent nationalist committee's announcement of the opening of the Rafah crossing is important".
"What is much important is that we show this committee's handling of citizens' departures and entries successful afloat state successful accordance with the agreement, and not according to Israeli conditions," helium added.
Israel has said it would lone let pedestrians to question done the crossing arsenic portion of its "limited reopening" erstwhile it had recovered the remains of the past hostage, Ran Gvili.
Israeli forces brought backmost Gvili's remains connected Monday and his ceremonial was held successful the confederate municipality of Meitar connected Wednesday (January 28, 2026).
Mr. Qassem said Wednesday (January 28, 2026) that "it is wide that Hamas is committed to the statement to halt the warfare connected the Gaza Strip", which began aft the militant group's deadly onslaught connected confederate Israel connected October 7, 2023.
"It has carried retired everything required of it successful the archetypal signifier and is acceptable to participate each tracks of the 2nd phase," helium added.
With the technocratic committee's instauration and the past hostage held successful Gaza returned to Israel, the ceasefire deal's adjacent important milestones volition beryllium Hamas's disarmament and Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
Though Hamas said the instrumentality of Gvili's assemblage showed its committedness to the ceasefire deal, it has truthful acold not surrendered its weapons.
The radical has repeatedly said disarmament is simply a reddish line, but it has besides suggested it would beryllium unfastened to handing implicit its weapons to a Palestinian governing authority.
Neither Israel nor Hamas person committed to a wide day oregon strategy for withdrawal oregon disarmament.
