Abbas: The PA and its Security Forces must control Gaza
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "First, an Arab plan to end the [Gaza] war and achieve peace should be adopted, and this will include: a constant ceasefire, the release of all the [Israeli] hostages and [Palestinian] prisoners (i.e., terrorists), ensuring the flow of humanitarian aid, and a complete withdrawal of the Israeli occupation from the Gaza Strip. Second, giving the State of Palestine the possibility to take over the civil and security responsibilities in the Gaza Strip and Hamas conceding its control, [and] together with all the factions handing over [their] weapons to the PA, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and reorganizing the Palestinian [PA] Security Forces in the Gaza Strip according to professional principles and under Arab and international supervision."
[Official PA TV News, May 17, 2025]