Hamas has suggested during ceasefire negotiations that an independent government of non-partisan figures run postwar Gaza and the West Bank, a member of the Palestinian terror group’s political bureau says, with another Hamas source saying this would pave way for Palestinian national elections.
“We proposed that a non-partisan national competency government manage Gaza and the West Bank after the war,” Husam Badran says in a statement about the ongoing negotiations between Israel and Hamas with mediation from Qatar, Egypt and the United States.
“The administration of Gaza after the war is a Palestinian internal matter without any external interference, and we will not discuss the day after the war in Gaza with any external parties,” Badran asserts.
A Hamas official tells AFP the proposal for a non-partisan government was made “with the mediators.”
The potential government will “manage the affairs of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in the initial phase after the war, paving the way for general elections,” says the official, who does not want his name disclosed.
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