The negotiations hosted by the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday, which brought together the Palestinian leadership delegations from the Hamas and Fatah movements, led to an agreement on a document to form a community support committee to administer the Gaza Strip.

The document, which was revealed by the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed website and came in two pages, includes a definition of the committee as “administering the Gaza Strip, and its reference is the Palestinian government, and it is responsible for all fields (health, economics, education, agriculture, service and vital facilities), including relief work, addressing the effects of the war and reconstruction, and it is formed by national consensus, and the President of the State of Palestine issues a decree appointing this committee, and it exercises its duties in accordance with the systems and laws in effect in the territories of the Palestinian state.”

The founding document specified the determinants of the formation of the committee, which were represented in six determinants, the first of which was to preserve the unity of the occupied Palestinian state’s territories on the 1967 borders (West Bank – Jerusalem – Gaza), the second was to emphasize communication between the Palestinian government in the West Bank and the committee in Gaza. The third determinant, according to the document, stipulated that the committee would follow the Palestinian political system in the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, and that its formation would not lead to the separation of Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian territories.

The fourth determinant stipulated that the formation of the committee should take into account the selection of professional Palestinian national elements from among the independent and competent individuals to carry out its tasks, while the fifth determinant was that the committee should manage all local authorities in the sector, coordinate with them, and benefit from them in a way that serves the Palestinian citizen.

The committee shall continue, according to the sixth specification in the document, to carry out its work in the sector until the reasons that led to its formation are eliminated, or until general elections are held or another formula agreed upon nationally is adopted, and this shall be by national consensus and by a decision of the President of the State of Palestine. The third clause in the document, which came in seven clauses, included an emphasis on the administrative, legal and oversight authority of the committee, such that its administrative authority is the Palestinian government, and its legal authority is the systems and laws in force in the Palestinian territories, while the oversight authority is the oversight bodies affiliated with the Palestinian Authority and currently in force in all Palestinian territories.

The document stipulated the formation of a national support and assistance body from local authorities in the sector, in a manner that ensures the committee can fully perform its assigned tasks without any obstacles or impediments due to the current situation there, in cooperation with official oversight authorities. According to the document, the committee will consist of 10-15 members from national figures with competencies and known for their integrity, experience and transparency. The organizational structure of the committee consists of a chairman, a deputy, and officials for the aid, education, health, and economy files, a local government official, a reconstruction official, and an official for communicating with local authorities and international organizations, in addition to a representative from the crossings authority.

According to the document, the committee's work will begin after all Palestinian factions meet to agree on its final formation in Cairo at the invitation of the President of the State of Palestine, provided that work continues at the Gaza Strip's outlets with the Israeli side, according to the mechanism that was followed before October 2023, and that the Rafah crossing is reopened in accordance with the 2005 agreement. The document also stipulates the formation of an international fund for the reconstruction of Gaza, supervised by donor countries, with the participation of a representative of the Palestinian Ministry of Finance and an assistant from the Community Support Committee, in order to ensure transparency and oversight.