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Amjad Shawa was reportedly named by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority as the approved leader for the new technical board that will rule the Gaza Strip.
according to Israel public broadcaster KAN Newsas quoted jerusalem postShawa was approved as the new leader during a meeting between Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and the Egyptian intelligence agency in Cairo last week.
However, his official appointment depends on the United States, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Who is Amjad Shawa?
Amjad Shawa is the director of the Palestinian NGO Network which liaises with the United Nations and international humanitarian organisations.
“Amjad Shawa is a Hamas supporter despite not being a Hamas man,” Palestinian sources told KAN.
On October 10, CBC News reported that Amjad Shawa was living in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. But his heart is in Gaza City, he said.
“People know their homes have been destroyed, but they insist on going [back]To pitch their tents on top of the debris of houses,” he told Nill Coxall, host of CBC Radio’s As It Happens.
He left his home in the Rimal neighborhood in the early days of the Israel–Hamas war and returned there with his family in January.
Israel says it will control security in Gaza
Israel insisted on Sunday that it would retain control of security inside Gaza despite the signing of a US-brokered ceasefire, which is likely to include the deployment of an international security force.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ministers that Israel would decide for itself where and when to attack its enemies and which countries would be allowed to send troops to police the ceasefire.
Netanyahu said, “Israel is an independent state. We will defend ourselves in our own ways and we will continue to determine our own destiny.” “We don’t want anyone’s approval for this. We control our own security.”
Under the terms of a US-brokered ceasefire, an international force, expected to come mainly from Arab or Muslim countries, is to secure Gaza when Israeli forces withdraw following the end of a brutal two-year battle against Hamas.
But Israel opposes any role for its regional rival Turkey and Netanyahu, who faces criticism from hard-liners in his own coalition for agreeing to a ceasefire, took a tough stance on Sunday when government ministers met in Jerusalem.
“We have made clear with respect to international powers that Israel will determine which powers are unacceptable to us,” he said, a day after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined a parade of high-level visits from Washington officials.
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