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Nineteen years of Hamas control over Gaza, dating to the group's 2007 seizure of the territory, sit at the center of Monday's announcement that Hamas would dissolve the emergency committee overseeing civilian government.
The move did not include a commitment to disarm. That omission is the operative variable in any assessment of President Donald Trump's Gaza framework and broader regional diplomacy.
What Hamas offered and what it withheld The proposed successor body, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), is a U.S.-backed committee prepared to take over civilian affairs once conditions allow.
It is currently based outside Gaza. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war.
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