Hamas leader Bassem Naim revealed on Tuesday that the movement is seeking to form a "technocratic government" agreed upon by Palestinian factions to administer the Gaza Strip.

Naim said - in an interview with Al-Aqsa TV - that "there are efforts to end the division and intensify efforts to form a national unity government," according to the channel's website on Telegram.

He added, "We seek to form a government of technocrats agreed upon by the Palestinian factions in order to manage the scene in the Gaza Strip."

Since the collapse of the Palestinian national unity government in the summer of 2007, a political division has continued between the Fatah and Hamas movements, and a geographical division between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Regional and international mediations and numerous agreements have failed to end it.

Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian factions have repeatedly stressed their rejection of what is included in media reports, especially Israeli and American, about plans to administer Gaza by non-Palestinian parties.

It is noteworthy that a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in Gaza was reached through Qatari, Egyptian and American mediation and officially went into effect last Sunday morning. Its first phase will last 42 days during which negotiations will take place to begin a second and then a third phase.

On Sunday, Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners, after Hamas released three Israeli civilian female prisoners.