Hamas calls for establishing ‘Community Support Committee’ for Gaza's temporary governance

The Palestinian group Hamas called on Friday for the Fatah movement to respond positively to the efforts aimed at establishing a "Community Support Committee" to manage the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, Hamas said it had recently received and considered "numerous national initiatives and proposals within the framework of efforts to save Gaza from the genocide it faces at the hands of Zionist militias with Western complicity and shocking international failure."

"We hope that our brothers in Fatah and the Palestinian Authority will respond positively to the efforts to form the committee," it added.

Hamas explained that, in recent months, it had cooperated with "Egypt's efforts and sought to form a national consensus government or a technocratic one."

"We have made significant progress with our brothers in Fatah, under the auspices of our Egyptian brothers, to form it," Hamas said, noting: "We have reached agreements and consensus with many factions, national figures, and activities, and a list of proposed names was handed over to Egypt."

The movement affirmed its readiness to "implement any agreements reached nationally and remains open to any formula that would unite the Palestinian people."

Since 2007, there has been a geographic and political division between Fatah and Hamas, with many regional and international mediations failing to resolve the split.

The Israeli army has continued a genocidal war on Gaza that has killed more than 45,500 victims, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its deadly war on Gaza.