Egypt’s Gaza plan excludes Hamas from future governance
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A plan for Gaza formulated by Egypt would exclude Hamas from governance of the enclave once the war ends, a draft of the plan obtained by CNN shows.
A plan for Gaza formulated by Egypt would exclude Hamas from governance of the enclave once the war ends, a draft of the plan obtained by CNN shows. The plan is being discussed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo in an emergency summit on Tuesday, with Egypt’s president proposing a Palestinian committee to temporarily govern Gaza – taking over from Hamas and eventually handing power to the Palestinian Authority (PA). “With the help of its Palestinian brothers, Egypt has worked to create a Palestinian administrative committee of independent professionals and technocrats, who will be tasked with governing Gaza with the expertise of its members,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said at the summit. The committee will be responsible for overseeing the relief process and governing the strip’s issues for a “temporary period” in preparation for the return of the PA to Gaza, Sisi said. The plan will be presented to US President Donald Trump in the coming weeks, Jordanian official sources told CNN earlier. Egypt is proposing the formation of an independent, technocratic Palestinian committee to rule Gaza for an interim 6-month period “under the umbrella of” the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority (PA), whose members would have no affiliations to Palestinian factions, the document said.
