Hamas announced on Monday the dissolution of its civilian governing body in Gaza, ending nearly two decades of direct administration and paving the way for a United Nations-backed committee of Palestinian technocrats to assume control. The move, described by Hamas as a “positive step forward” toward implementing a US-brokered ceasefire, was immediately dismissed by Israeli officials as a tactical maneuver designed to avoid disarmament. Ismail al-Thawabta, general director of the Hamas-run Government Media Office, told reporters in Deir al-Balah that only “technical and professional staff” would remain in their positions, while all service-providing employees would transition to the new National Committee for the Administration of Gaza. “All employees working in service provision are ‘state employees’ and are fully prepared to work under the National Committee,” al-Thawabta said .

The announcement came as the coffin of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrived in Qom, the country’s religious heartland, for the fourth day of a week-long funeral procession. Tens of thousands of mourners filled the streets of Tehran on Monday, chanting slogans of “death to America” and “death to Israel,” while aerial footage showed the capital’s main arteries choked with loyalists. President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that “tears arise from the pain and sorrow that surges within a person, and the world sees this truth,” rebutting US President Donald Trump’s claim that the displays of grief were “fake tears” .

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Tel Aviv would “thwart” any future Iranian leader who threatens the country, reiterating that US-Israeli strikes in February had removed the immediate threat of destruction from Israel and severely damaged Tehran’s strategic capabilities. “Any Iranian leader who tries to promote plans to destroy Israel again will also be thwarted,” Katz told The Jerusalem Post. “Israel is prepared to once again defend itself on its own at any time and against any threat” .

The Hamas decision was welcomed by the UN, which stressed that any step contributing to ceasefire implementation and civilian protection was positive. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric noted that the dissolution of the Hamas Emergency Committee and transfer of authority to a new national body could advance unified Palestinian governance under the Palestinian Authority . The new technocratic committee, based in Cairo and chaired by Gaza-born engineer Ali Shaath, has a mandate to restore essential services and oversee civilian affairs under UN supervision and the Board of Peace, a US-backed entity led by President Donald Trump.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar dismissed the move as a ruse. “As long as Hamas retains its weapons, any civilian government will of course operate as Hamas dictates,” he wrote on X . Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem called the dissolution “a positive step forward on the path to implement the ceasefire deal,” while the Board of Peace stated it would assess the impact based on “actions, not promises” .

The funeral proceedings in Iran continued their carefully choreographed march toward Qom, Najaf, and Karbala, culminating in burial on Thursday at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad. Analysts described the ceremonies as designed to frame Khamenei as a transcendent religious and political figure whose authority extended across the Muslim world, particularly Shia Islam . Yet dissenting voices noted that many Iranians stayed away, citing two wars in less than a year, spiraling inflation of around 80%, and the pain of January’s anti-government protests. “Many people don’t have work and are so unhappy,” one man told reporters outside a rest station in Tehran .

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