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Gaza technocratic committee members slated to re-enter Strip via Rafah next week — officials
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
The Palestinian technocratic committee tasked with managing the daily affairs of postwar Gaza in place of Hamas is slated to enter the Strip next week, a US official and an Arab diplomat tell The Times of Israel.
The 12-member National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) has been holding meetings in Cairo after being unveiled last month.
All of the members are originally from Gaza, though some have been residing outside of the Strip in recent years.
The NCAG’s members will re-enter the Strip through the Rafah Crossing, which opened for the first pedestrian crossings in a year earlier today, the US official and Arab diplomat say.
A third source familiar with the matter says the NCAG will be based west of the Yellow Line ceasefire demarcation — the side not still occupied by the IDF.
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