Palestine’s President Abbas says ready to govern Gaza after ceasefire deal

Palestinian president reiterates telephone for ‘an contiguous ceasefire and afloat Israeli withdrawal’ from besieged territory.

Palestine’s President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was acceptable to presume “full responsibility” successful post-war Gaza, successful his archetypal connection since a ceasefire woody was announced betwixt Israel and Hamas.

“The Palestinian government, nether president Abbas’ directives, has completed each preparations to presume afloat work successful Gaza,” a presidency connection said connected Friday.

It would see the instrumentality of the displaced, providing basal services, crossings absorption and reconstruction of the war-torn territory.

The statement, published by the Palestinian Wafa quality agency, besides reiterated the telephone of Abbas’s authorities “of the necessity of an contiguous ceasefire successful and afloat Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip”.

While Hamas has exercised afloat power successful Gaza since 2007, the PA, dominated by the Fatah movement, runs the West Bank which has been occupied by the Israeli forces.

Currently, Israel has nary definitive stance connected post-war governance beyond rejecting immoderate relation for some Hamas and the PA.

Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, person repeatedly opposed Hamas oregon the PA ruling the Palestinian territory, describing either script arsenic “a reward” for the October 7, 2023 attack.

However, outgoing US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said past week that the PA should tally the coastal territory.

Palestinian leaders crossed factions person agelong said that Gaza’s future is for them to decide, rejecting immoderate extracurricular interference.

On Friday, Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa said authorities institutions were acceptable to measurement up their enactment and reconstruct basal services successful Gaza, portion calling connected the European Union (EU) to redeploy a monitoring ngo to the Rafah borderline crossing and assistance facilitate the introduction of aid.

“The Palestinian ministers person wide instructions connected what to bash from the infinitesimal the ceasefire begins. We person a 100-day program for the time after,” Mustafa was quoted by the Belga News Agency arsenic saying during his travel to Brussels.

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