Hamas dissolves its Gaza government: nearly 20 years of rule come to an end
Hamas has dissolved its governing body in the Gaza Strip, clearing the way for the NCAG technocratic committee. Disarmament remains the main sticking point.
Almost two decades after seizing control of the Gaza Strip, Hamas has announced the dissolution of its governing body in the territory. The exit was formalised with the resignation of Mohammed al-Farr, head of the emergency committee that ran Gaza, and clears the way for a technocratic administration.
Who will govern Gaza after Hamas?
Power is set to pass to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a technocratic structure created by the Peace Council established during the negotiations that produced the October 2025 ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, with American backing. According to the movement’s press office, al-Farr dissolved his own committee precisely to smooth that handover.
Hamas’s spokesman framed the move as a way of removing the other side’s arguments: by giving up the administration of the territory, the movement says it wants to deny Israel “any pretext” to continue the war. A self-serving reading, of course — but it confirms that pressure to consolidate the ceasefire is producing concrete changes in the enclave’s power structure, where the humanitarian situation remains under close watch by the United Nations.
What still stands in the way of a lasting peace?
Disarmament. The surrender of Hamas’s weapons remains the central sticking point in negotiations — dissolving a governing committee is one thing; giving up an arsenal is quite another, and no regional analyst expects the second without a much longer arm-wrestle. It caps a stretch in which world diplomacy has been anything but quiet.
For now, Gaza prepares to be governed, for the first time since 2007, by someone other than Hamas. Everything else — and there is a lot of everything else — gets decided in the months ahead.
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