Fatah official rejects Gaza technocratic committee, contradicts official PA stance

A senior Fatah official has publicly broken ranks with the Palestinian Authority, rejecting a plan for a technocratic committee to administer the Gaza Strip. Jibril Rajoub stated that the proposed National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) is an "Israeli recipe for reinforcing Palestinian division."

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The Gaza committee is an Israeli recipe for reinforcing Palestinian division. We should never have agreed to or accepted the committee under any circumstances.

Rajoub's strong opposition contradicts the official position of the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, which had endorsed the committee. The PA viewed the body, supervised by the US, as a transitional phase for post-war Gaza and a step toward unified governance. Rajoub, however, argued that any such move should be based on Palestinian territorial and political unity under the PLO.

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Any step should have been based on the unity of the Palestinian territory and the unity of the Palestinian political system under the umbrella of the PLO, as well as the unity of the service apparatus under a single government.

He expressed concern that the committee, if successful, would lead to two separate Palestinian governments and states. Rajoub's public statement highlights internal Palestinian disagreements over the future governance of Gaza, particularly amid ongoing efforts to rebuild and establish stability in the territory following the conflict.

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if it had succeeded, we would have ended up as two peoples, two governments, and two states.