Official members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s circle have stated that they received guarantees from those involved in Gaza ceasefire negotiations that the PA will have a significant role in governing the Gaza Strip, KAN reported Sunday morning.
The officials reported that the PA will play a central role in selecting the technocratic committee that will run Gaza, as well as assisting in the management of the Rafah crossing after it reopens.
An Arab diplomat involved in the mediation told KAN that there is currently a proposal for the next phase of the Trump Gaza plan, which involves the establishment of a Palestinian government in Gaza that is not affiliated with Hamas and would be supported by the international community.
Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said he had met former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss the day after in Gaza and making Trump's plan for "stopping the Gaza war and establishing lasting peace in the region a success."
"We have confirmed our readiness to work with President Trump, Mr. Blair, and the partners to consolidate the ceasefire, the entry of aid, the release of hostages and prisoners, and then start with the recovery and reconstruction," Sheikh wrote on X.
Phase one of Trump’s Gaza plan announced Thursday
This comes after US President Donald Trump announced early on Thursday that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal in Gaza.
The agreement was announced after intensive talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, where US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner pushed the two parties to an agreement, along with Qatari and Egyptian mediators.
The plan was signed at noon in Egypt, and will come into effect after the Israeli government ratifies it in a vote set for 6 p.m. on Thursday.
Twenty living hostages are expected to be released within 72 hours of the deal taking effect. Additionally, Arab reports indicated that Hamas had begun collecting the remains of deceased hostages to return to Israel.
In the immediate wake of the announcement of the deal, the IDF began preparing to shift its deployment lines in the Palestinian enclave after The Jerusalem Post previously reported Israel had reached a full agreement on the maps detailing the military's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
Reuters contributed to this report.