Hamas says it is ready to hand over all areas of governance in Gaza, including security, to a national committee agreed upon in Cairo. The statement, carried in the supplied Bastille Post report, is the clearest claim in the packet that the movement is willing to transfer day-to-day authority rather than continue to hold it directly.
According to the source, Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the movement was "categorically and decisively" ready to hand over governance to the committee. He also rejected suggestions that Hamas refuses to step aside, calling such claims lies and a disinformation campaign aimed at giving Israel a pretext to escalate its assault in Gaza. The source says Hamas argues that the handover process is being obstructed, not by its own refusal, but by outside forces.
Those outside forces, in the Hamas account, include Israel and Nickolay Mladenov, described in the report as the high representative for Gaza of the U.S.-led Board of Peace. Hamas says Israel is preventing the committee from entering through the crossings. That is a crucial point because it shows the dispute is not just about who says they will govern Gaza in the future, but about whether any new administrative arrangement can physically take shape on the ground.
In practical terms, that means any transition would have to move through checkpoints, crossings and security coordination before it could become real. The statement is therefore as much about logistics as politics: Hamas is saying it would step aside, but it is also arguing that the path is blocked externally.
The report places the statement against a backdrop of continuing violence. It says two Palestinians were killed on Tuesday by Israeli strikes in central Gaza. One strike in Deir al-Balah killed one person and wounded four others, while another drone strike in the north of Deir al-Balah killed one and injured two. Those details matter because they show the governance statement did not come in a vacuum; it came while the territory was still being hit.
The same source also says the Israeli government allocated one billion shekels, about 350 million dollars, to the Defense Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces to fund a special military tribunal for Palestinians suspected of involvement in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The packet repeats Israeli figures that about 1,200 people were killed in that attack and more than 250 hostages were taken. It also cites Gaza-based health authorities as saying at least 72,737 people have been killed in the wider war.
That wider context helps explain why a handover declaration would draw so much attention. In Gaza, governance, security, reconstruction and cross-border access are all tangled together. A technocratic committee may sound administrative in the abstract, but in practice it would have to deal with crossings, policing, food, power, salaries and damaged infrastructure while diplomacy remains unsettled and military pressure continues.
The key takeaway from the supplied evidence is therefore narrow but important. Hamas is signaling willingness to transfer authority, and it is placing the blame for delays on Israel and a U.S.-linked envoy. Whether that statement turns into a real handover depends on access, enforcement and political agreement - none of which the evidence says has yet been secured.
