Overview
- Hamas and Fatah held talks in Cairo to address Gaza’s postwar arrangements and national priorities.
- Participants agreed to transfer Gaza’s administration to a temporary local technocratic body and to form an international reconstruction committee.
- Hamas says it fulfilled phase-one ceasefire terms by freeing all living hostages and returning some remains, and it seeks further talks before phase two.
- Israel’s foreign minister reaffirmed commitment to the U.S.-sponsored plan and demanded Gaza’s demilitarization alongside the immediate return of all remaining bodies.
- Palestinian factions called for a UN peacekeeping mission to monitor the ceasefire, according to a Hamas statement on the Cairo meeting.