Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 09.07.2026
Israel tells us that Hamas is sabotaging the cessation of the war in Gaza. In this reality, Israel is sabotaging the implementation of the agreement.
Hamas announced on Monday that its government running the Gaza Strip had resigned in order to transfer its powers to the technocratic committee established as part of the Peace Council’s plan for Gaza. However, Israel does not allow the entry into Gaza of Palestinian members of the committee who are in Cairo. The decision announced by Hamas does not concern the military wing, whose possibility of dismantling heavy weapons is still being negotiated by the mediators with Hamas. However, as long as Israel is not a partner in the process and as long as the United States does not pressure it to move forward with the plan, the Zionist monster will remain in Gaza and continue its genocide.
In addition, the plan to transfer powers to the Technocrats Committee was officially presented to representatives of the Palestinian factions and forces, to the Supreme Committee of Clans and Tribes in the Gaza Strip, and to representatives of civil society, in the presence of a UN observer representative.
This week, another round of talks is expected to begin between the mediators and the High Representative of the Peace Council for the Gaza Strip, Nickolay Mladenov, and the Hamas negotiating team. Egypt, which is leading the process, is signaling that it can persuade Hamas to agree to gradual disarmament. According to another source familiar with the details, Hamas and the mediators reached understandings on 13 of the 15 clauses of the outline document presented to the organization in April. This is a clear indication that Hamas refuses to discharge its small arms and is willing to hand over the heavy weapons to a Palestinian body acceptable to Hamas.
Last month, it was reported that contacts were being held between the Palestinian factions with Egyptian mediation in Cairo, in an attempt to reach agreements on the future of control of the Gaza Strip and the issue of disarming Hamas. According to the agreements that are being formulated and according to Palestinian sources involved in the negotiations, one of the main issues in the talks is the definition that will be given to the handling of Hamas weapons. The versions discussed, according to the sources, stated that Hamas would “lay” its weapons in place of the term “handover” that appeared earlier. According to them, this means that Hamas will not transfer its weapons to Israel, but to an agreed Palestinian body. This body could be a force subordinate to the Technocrats Committee, which is supposed to run the Gaza Strip, or a Palestinian Authority force, if a consensus is reached.
In May, Haaretz reported that Article 17 of the agreement stipulates that Israel will have to withdraw from the areas to be handed over to the International Stabilization Force, even without Hamas disarming – a step that Israel strongly opposes.
It will be a suicide for Hamas to give up on being armed as Israel will intensify the genocide, we have seen in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon.