This account is incorrectly reporting the news, repeating a headline used by Abu Dhabi’s “The National”—a platform that bewilderingly claimed that Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hazzem Qasem, had issued a statement to them (but in fact just quoted the same press release statement he gave to the general public).

Hamas is not abdicating governance today. What is, in fact, transpiring is that Hamas is dissolving its Emergency Committee and replacing it with what it is deeming a “temporary” or “interim” committee (as part of a broader mechanism per the Cairo negotiations, all of which seek to demonstrate Hamas’ seriousness about moving forwards for relief entry), but it is still governing Gaza.

The Governmental Emergency Committee’s framework was inaugurated in November 2019 and became an overarching structure post-October 2023. The Government Work Follow-up Committee has served as Hamas’s de facto cabinet since 2019 after the dissolution of the former Administrative Committee. The two structures have operated in tandem over the past three years.

Muhammad ʿAbd al-Khaliq al-Farra’s (former head of the Government Follow-Up Committee) letter, authored today, includes the following key passage:

“I submit my resignation from my position as Acting Head of the Government Work Follow-up Committee and as Head of the Governmental Emergency Committee.

Those who will remain in their government positions are only employees at the service, professional, and technical levels. They will remain at their posts in order to serve our people and to prevent an administrative vacuum and a breakdown in security, in accordance with the Road Map and the agreements reached by the Palestinian factions in Cairo.

Accordingly, the remaining governmental body will operate under the name ‘Temporary Authority for Government Services,’ subject to the applicable Palestinian laws and regulations.”

The transitional phase will be led by Dr. Abdul Hadi al-Agha. Dr. Al-Agha has long served in Gaza’s civil administration, as he was Deputy Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs in the Government Follow-up Committee. user avatar The Saviour @TheSaviour 21h 🇵🇸BREAKING: Hamas is stepping down from running Gaza after 20 years by dissolving its main government committee and handing full powers to a new technocratic admin committee. 12:06 · 6 juli 2026 50,5 tn Visningar