India, Jan. 12 -- GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, January 12 - Hamas announced it will dissolve its administrative government in Gaza once a new US-mandated Palestinian technocratic committee takes control, a tentative step in a fragile peace process. The group provided no timeline for the transfer, which hinges on unresolved details and unfolds amid ongoing lethal violence in the territory.

Authority is slated to transfer to a committee of politically unaffiliated Palestinian technocrats, as outlined in the US-brokered ceasefire plan. Neither Hamas nor the rival Palestinian Authority has announced the committee's members, and it remains unclear if Israel and the US will approve them. A Hamas spokesperson called for expediting the committee's for...