NCAG touts productive meetings in Cyprus aimed at readying Palestinian technocratic committee for Gaza entry

The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) says its members held a series of “highly productive” meetings in Cyprus to prepare for the next phase of its efforts to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.

Participating in those meetings were representatives from Nickolay Mladenov’s Office of the High Representative and former UK prime minister Tony Blair’s Institute for Global Change, NCAG says in a statement.

“We concentrated on what can be done immediately, including initiatives and projects to ease conditions on the ground. We reviewed plans for reconstruction, security and governance, and we finalized the institutional arrangements that will ensure the transparency and accountability required by international donors,” the statement continues.

The NCAG statement reiterates the Palestinian technocratic government’s commitment to US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza and says it is “prepared to take all necessary steps — in coordination with the Board of Peace and the Office of the High Representative — in order to assume its responsibilities once the right conditions are met.”

It doesn’t specify what those conditions are, but the Board of Peace has conditioned NCAG’s entry into Gaza on Hamas agreeing to disarm, while the terror group argues that Israel must first cease violations of the ceasefire deal reached in October.

This week’s meetings in Cyprus built on a workshop that was held in Cairo last week and “are part of a broader process to ensure we have every tool necessary to serve the Palestinian people of Gaza,” NCAG says.

“Further steps will be set out and announced in due course,” the statement adds.