Overview
- Kan News reporting, relayed by Israel National News and Matzav, says Hamas refuses to transfer authority to a proposed technocratic committee and wants to retain control while remaining a political actor.
- Israeli officials have told the United States they will not accept any arrangement that includes Hamas in Gaza’s administration or agreements that leave the group embedded in governing structures.
- The same reporting says Hamas has reached out to Arab governments about a Hezbollah-style model that combines political influence with retained military power.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s war goals, stating they are to return hostages, dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, and dismantle its governing capacity, and he said the first goal has been achieved.
- Netanyahu cited ongoing operations, saying about 150 km of an estimated 500 km of tunnels have been dismantled and asserting that some 60,000 AK-47s in Gaza “must go.”