PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
Hamas to US: “You build, we can wait to rule”: Hamas’ devious Gaza offer
Ahron Shapiro
July 6, 2026

Today, Hamas announced it has begun dissolving its government in Gaza to stage a handover to a technocratic committee under the auspices of the Board of Peace as envisaged by the October 2025 ceasefire agreement. Yet a close reading of its own spokesmen and sources shows that Hamas has no intention to follow through with the most important part of the deal – complete disarmament. Hamas’ ploy has the hallmarks of political theater. The terror group has said its “technical and professional staff” will keep their jobs – meaning Hamas terrorists will remain to run the “new” administration, and only its ministers will resign for new figureheads. More than that, however, Hamas’ move is a calculated maneuver to entice the international community to begin reconstruction and pressure Israel to withdraw from the “Yellow” ceasefire line, thus offloading the daunting task of rebuilding Gaza onto others. Meanwhile, Hamas can quietly rebuild its weapons and tunnel infrastructure until the time is ripe to impose its rule on all of Gaza as it did in 2007 when it kicked out the Palestinian Authority. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Hamas is not giving up power. It is rebranding. Hamas announced this week that it was dissolving the committee that has governed Gaza since 2007. The move is symbolic — and almost nothing on the ground has changed. Symbolic, though, is not the same as unimportant. Treat those two as one word and you miss the whole thing, because here the symbol is the entire product. What Hamas performed this week was not a surrender of power. It was a rebrand — and the rebrand is the weapon.