Cairo hosts second phase talks: "Technocrat" committee to manage Gaza and the resistance's patience running out

All eyes are on the Egyptian capital on Monday, where the Egyptian leadership will hold a pivotal meeting to discuss arrangements for the "second phase" of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. This meeting comes at a highly sensitive time, amidst intensive efforts to overcome first-phase violations and launch the "civil administration" phase for the Strip.

Topping the agenda of the meeting, which will be chaired by the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Major General Hassan Mahmoud Rashad, is the formation of an independent "technocrat committee" to manage the affairs of the Strip. According to Palestinian sources, the intention is to select 15 professional figures with experience, away from factional disputes.

Dr. Majed Abu Ramadan, Minister of Health in Dr. Mohammed Mustafa's government, emerged as the most prominent candidate to lead this committee, given his local and regional acceptance. This committee will be entrusted with the tasks of "reconstruction" and organizing municipal and health services, preparing the Strip for a phase of "social mending" and recovery after the war.

The path to the second phase remains contingent on closing the files of the first phase; sources revealed high-level intelligence cooperation to assist Hamas in locating the burial site of the last Israeli prisoner in Gaza.

Completing this file is key to reopening the Rafah crossing in both directions, a condition insisted upon by Egypt and Palestinian forces to actually begin infrastructure repair.

Despite these negotiating atmospheres, the field is experiencing a state of turmoil; the Egyptian mediator received an "angry" message from the Al-Qassam Brigades, warning that "the patience of the resistance fighters may run out" in the face of repeated Israeli violations, the latest of which was the shelling that killed 14 Palestinians.

The resistance accuses Tel Aviv of "evasion" in implementing the withdrawal provisions and aid flow, and believes that Israeli claims of retaliation for "failed" rockets are merely a pretext to undermine the agreement. Therefore, tomorrow's Cairo meeting will be a real test of the Egyptian mediator's ability to curb escalation and push the "administrative committee" forward, to spare the Strip a new wave of bloodshed.