Mike Baker

But that pledge is missing a timeline when the handoff would actually happen, and it's missing the key component that Hamas disarm.

For now, the details remain thin.

Hamas has not announced the names of a single technocrat who could run Gaza under this plan, and neither has the Palestinian Authority.

These figures are supposedly to be politically unaffiliated, but even that remains theoretical.

More importantly, it's still unclear whether Israel and the U.S.

would even sign off on the committee at all.

It's a requirement that has to be met before any real transfer of authority can take place.

That uncertainty feeds directly into the larger structure meant to oversee all of this.

That, of course, would be what's known as the Board of Peace.

Under the plan advanced by President Trump,

This new international body is supposed to supervise the technocratic leadership, enforce the ceasefire, oversee Hamas's disarmament, coordinate the deployment of an international security force, and manage Gaza's reconstruction.

The ceasefire took effect on the 10th of October, halting, for the most part, large-scale fighting and setting off a series of hostage-for-prisoner exchanges, as well as a surge of aid into the enclave.

Now, the deal is still in its first phase, and that matters because efforts are ongoing to recover the remains of the final Israeli hostage believed to be held in the Gaza Strip.

Until that step is completed, Hamas dissolves its existing government and disarms,

Moving forward into the more consequential second phase of the agreement remains unlikely and uncertain.

Against that backdrop, Egyptian mediators are trying to push things along.

An Egyptian official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations said Hamas is preparing to send a delegation to talks with Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish officials aimed at advancing the agreement into its second phase.

Publicly, Hamas has also tried to project urgency.

In comments posted on Telegram, a spokesman from the Iran-backed terror group called for speeding up the formation of the technocratic committee.

How about they speed up the effort to disarm?