Hamas has its messaging, and it wants to stir the pot and confuse everyone by obfuscating whether it will give up power that it was never supposed to have.

Hillary Clinton praised President Donald Trump's 20-point Gaza plan as a pathway to security for Israel and self-determination for Palestinians, calling it the only option.

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Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza meets on Tuesday in Cyprus to assess the situation in the strip, nearly nine months after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Mr Trump’s much vaunted attempt to replace the United Nations has little to show for itself.

Hamas said on Monday it had dissolved its de facto government in Gaza and signalled it was ready to ‌hand over to a group of Palestinian technocrats, as it presses Israel to ⁠honour other parts of a stalled US-backed peace plan.

New proposal to be discussed with Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Egypt this week

Board of Peace talks on Gaza’s post-war future face funding crises and warnings of a colonial occupation.