Netanyahu And Trump To Meet In Dc As Gaza’s Fate Without Hamas Is Debated

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are group to meet astatine nan White House connected Monday. One of nan astir difficult questions connected nan array is what Gaza mightiness look for illustration without Hamas. 

Experts show Fox News Digital that while nan request for an replacement is clear, almost each projected solution comes pinch superior structural, governmental and information limitations.

John Hannah, a elder chap astatine nan Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) and seasoned of some Republican and Democratic administrations, said building an replacement to Hamas must hap successful parallel pinch dismantling it. 

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Hamas terrorists look from nan shadows arsenic they situation Red Cross vehicles. (TPS-IL)

"Part of really you triumph is by showing there’s a viable alternative," Hannah said. "People request to spot there’s a early beyond Hamas"

That future, experts believe, lies successful a non-Hamas technocratic authorities – comprised of Palestinians unaffiliated pinch either Hamas aliases nan PLO – backed by a conjugation of cardinal Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and nan UAE.

"While a caller management successful Gaza should beryllium independent, some symbolic nexus to nan Palestinian Authority could heighten its legitimacy with nan Arabs. Perhaps Ramallah could service arsenic a pass-through for paying salaries. But nan PA won’t telephone nan shots," Hannah said.

"The default correct now, if Israel ends up leaving Gaza, is Hamas," said Ghaith al-Omari, elder chap astatine nan Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "There is nary 1 connected nan crushed who tin situation them. And location is nary Arab engagement without nan conclusion of Hamas. Not conscionable a ceasefire – existent disarmament."

Palestinians transportation bags and boxes containing nutrient and humanitarian assistance packages delivered by nan Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization, successful Rafah, confederate Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

At best, said al-Omari who served arsenic nan erstwhile executive head of nan American Task Force connected Palestine, nan PA mightiness connection a "kosher stamp" to fulfill Arab states, which person made clear they will only intervene successful Gaza nether a Palestinian nationalist umbrella.

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"Without that symbolic PA invitation, Egypt and others won’t travel in," said al-Omari. "But they still request a governmental model – immoderate committedness to a two-state solution. Without that, they person perfectly nary inducement to play a domiciled successful Gaza."

Securing Israeli support for immoderate caller Gaza management is different awesome hurdle. An Israeli information charismatic told Fox News Digital that immoderate woody would request to see guarantees that Israel retains counterterrorism entree to forestall Hamas from reemerging.

"Something for illustration what exists successful nan West Bank – buffer zones, perimeter security, and nan correct of nan IDF aliases Shin Bet to enactment connected intelligence erstwhile needed," Hannah said.

IDF forces operating successful Rafah, successful nan Gaza Strip. (IDF Spokesman's Office)

That framework, he noted, would require intensive American-led diplomacy pinch sustained beingness and coordination.

"I can’t spot anyone other but nan United States doing it – location are excessively galore inner-Arab rivalries," Hannah said, "No different character has nan relationships, resources aliases spot required to span nan heavy divides betwixt Israel, Arab states and world players. Everyone’s going to want nan U.S. astatine nan halfway of this. And there’s nary uncertainty President Trump wants to lick it."

"Qatar is nan elephant successful nan room," said Hannah, "They bring a batch of much-needed money, but they’ve had a deeply problematic relationship pinch Hamas. If they want a spot astatine nan table, it has to beryllium pinch strict conditions – money flowing done trusted, externally controlled channels. But they can’t be a cardinal subordinate in this effort."

The United Nations, meanwhile, is mostly out. "UNRWA’s days are over," said Hannah. "They can’t tally acquisition aliases nan system successful Gaza anymore. At most, nan U.N. mightiness endorse a U.S.-Arab-Israeli scheme pinch a Security Council solution – but they won’t play an operational role."

One portion of footage published by nan Israel Defense Force reportedly shows Hamas combatants firing weapons from nan entranceway to nan UNRWA compound. (IDF)

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One connection gaining quiet traction successful Israeli and American circles is nan thought of empowering section clans to found self-governing enclaves. 

Joseph Braude, president of nan Center for Peace Communications, has spoken extensively pinch activists connected nan crushed and believes this exemplary could people nan opening of an alternative. 

"It whitethorn not beryllium realistic to talk astir 1 civilian management managing each of Gaza correct now," Braude said, "But successful discrete geographical enclaves wrong nan strip, you tin aviator non-Hamas self-rule. Local Gazans patrol internally while nan IDF aliases different unit secures nan perimeter. "

"There’s a fibre of educated, civically minded individuals successful Gaza – from engineers to teachers – who are not Islamists," he added, "If vetted properly, they tin negociate administration, acquisition and basal services. But you person to commencement by identifying who they are and what they really believe." 

Braude pointed to 1 specified case: Yasser Abu Shabab, a section militia leader. "This is nan first anti-Hamas militia to look successful Gaza successful a generation. He’s a section combatant from a Bedouin clan pinch family ties to Egyptian forces battling ISIS successful Sinai. He says he wants to induce civilian servants to statesman staffing an administration."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin meets pinch President Donald Trump successful nan Oval Office of nan White House connected April 7, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

But not everyone agrees this is feasible. "These groups are fragmented, displaced and deficiency nan legitimacy aliases cohesion to govern," said al-Omari. "You mightiness usage these militias to unafraid assistance deliveries successful a circumstantial area, but they can’t shape nan ground of governance."

Dr. Michael Milstein, caput of nan Forum for Palestinian Studies astatine Tel Aviv University, told Fox News Digital, "Since nan warfare began, respective attempts to beforehand clans arsenic an replacement to Hamas person besides failed, for illustration nan Doghmush clan, whose leaders were executed by Hamas successful early 2024."

"Even now, figures for illustration Abu Shabab successful Rafah aliases nan Barbakh family successful Khan Younis are fringe cases," Milstein added. "Hamas still controls astir of nan nationalist space. Clans whitethorn connection localized solutions, but they are nary cohesive aliases morganatic alternative. Many are openly loyal to Hamas."

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"Many say, until Palestinians thatch their children to emotion themselves much than they dislike Israel, location will ne'er beryllium peace," Braude said, "That’s true. But who is really moving to foster a Palestinian leadership [that] does so? That’s nan situation – and nan opportunity – correct now."