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by Khaled Abu Toameh • November 6, 2025 at 5:00 am
* Hamas is not the only terror group that opposes the presence of international forces in the Gaza Strip. On October 8, two other terror groups, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, also rejected the idea of any "foreign guardianship" over the Gaza Strip. "We are ready to benefit from Arab and international participation in the fields of reconstruction, recovery and development support," the two groups said in a joint statement with Hamas.
* For them, the international community's role in the Gaza Strip should be limited to pouring billions of dollars into reconstruction and development.
* When Hamas officials such as Abu Marzouk say they will not allow any force to replace the Israeli army, they are actually threatening to carry out terror attacks against members of such a force.
* "Whoever comes to replace Israel will be treated as Israel." — Osama Hamdan, senior Hamas official, arabi21.com, February 15, 2025.
* [T]he terror group may accept the presence of troops from some Arab and Islamic countries such as Qatar and Turkey, which are longtime sponsors of the terror group. The presence of such friendly forces will undoubtedly ensure Hamas's continued dominion over the Gaza Strip and allow the terror group to rearm, regroup and rebuild its military capabilities. It is simply unrealistic to expect Qatari or Turkish soldiers to forcibly disarm Hamas.
* Notably, the Arab and Muslim ministers did not call on Hamas to cede control of the Gaza Strip or lay down its weapons.
* Turkey clearly considers Hamas a legitimate and acceptable actor in any future administration of the Gaza Strip.... This position is shared by Egypt....
* It is equally unrealistic, unfortunately, to think that soldiers of any outside force -- especially Arab and Muslim troops -- would risk being shot at by trying to stop any military reconstruction in Gaza by Hamas or other terrorist groups. This bad bet was made unmistakably clear by the presence of UNIFIL in Lebanon, where it took about a minute for the UNIFIL forces to support the terrorists, not confront them.
* Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups -- as well as deeply fundamentalist Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Qatar and Egypt -- will simply use any international force as cover to avoid being targeted by Israel and to maintain control of the Gaza Strip.

Is Hamas planning to thwart US efforts to deploy an international force in the Gaza Strip? When Hamas officials such as Musa Abu Marzouk say they will not allow any force to replace the Israeli army, they are actually threatening to carry out terror attacks against members of such a force. Pictured: Abu Marzouk in an October 25, 2025 interview on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV. (Image source: MEMRI)

Is Hamas planning to thwart US efforts to deploy an international force in the Gaza Strip?

On November 4, Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, told Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV network that "a military force that could replace the [Israeli] occupation is unacceptable."

Abu Marzouk, based in Qatar, stressed that there is a "Palestinian consensus that the security force in Gaza should be Palestinian, under the leadership of the committee managing the Strip." This option, he said, enjoys Palestinian consensus and reflects the will to manage security independently without external interference.

The Hamas official was commenting on reports that the US has sent several United Nations Security Council members a draft resolution for the establishment of an international force in the Gaza Strip. According to an unnamed US official, the proposed International Security Force (ISF) will be an "enforcement force and not a peacekeeping force."

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