Hamas may have announced the dissolution of its government in Gaza, but Israel‘s officials not only don’t believe it — they believe the move was made for a very specific reason. Gideon Sa’ar took to platform X to emphasize that the dissolution of the Hamas government implies that, since it will no longer exist, it won’t need to be disarmed under the demands put forward by Israel and the United States in the peace plan for the Gaza Strip. Specifically, Israel’s Foreign Minister commented on Monday, July 6, that as long as Hamas retains its weapons, any government in the Gaza Strip “will operate under Hamas’s orders,” as he stressed, also drawing a comparison to the “Hezbollah model” in Lebanon. He went on to add: “Israel insists on the full implementation of the Trump plan, with its core principles being the disarmament of Hamas and all other terrorist organizations, as well as the complete demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.”
Hamas’s trick is simple.
Hamas’s apparent willingness to “make room” for a technocratic government is designed to prevent its own disarmament.
Hamas seeks to replicate the “Hezbollah model” in Gaza:
a technocratic administration would be responsible for garbage collection and…— Gideon Sa'ar | גדעון סער (@gidonsaar) July 6, 2026
