Hamas has agreed to relinquish control of the Gaza Strip and hand over all authority to a newly formed technocratic committee.

Axar.az informs, an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Al Arabiya on Thursday.

Hamas had announced it would hand over “everything” in Gaza to the committee, which is set to administer the territory under a plan agreed upon last year by US President Donald Trump, Dr. Mahmoud al-Habash, the Palestinian president’s Advisor on Religious Affairs, said following the announcement of an agreement on the committee’s 15 members.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday announced the launch of “Phase Two” of the 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.

“Today, on behalf ‍of President Trump, we are announcing the launch of Phase Two of the President’s 20-Point Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, moving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction,” Witkoff said in a post on X.

The 15-member Palestinian body launched on Wednesday will be headed by Ali Shaath, a former deputy minister in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority who had been in charge of developing industrial zones, according to a joint statement by mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey.

Al-Habash said he hoped the agreement would be implemented, “so that the Palestinians do not find themselves facing internal crises again.”

He also confirmed that “the committee managing the sector is sovereign in its decisions and works in coordination with the Palestinian Authority.”

He said preventing displacement would be among the committee’s top priorities, stressing that “it will not interfere in political affairs.”