Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said on Tuesday evening that the movement had agreed for a minister from the Palestinian Authority to manage Gaza in order to serve the public interest.

In a televised interview, Abu Marzouk said that Palestinian factions had reached a consensus that the security force operating in Gaza should be Palestinian, under the leadership of the committee responsible for managing the enclave.

He explained that it would be difficult for the UN Security Council to approve a resolution to deploy an international force in Gaza as proposed by the United States.

Abu Marzouk added that mediators had insisted the formation of such a force must be authorised by the Security Council, while both the United States and Israel did not wish for it to be established under a UN resolution. He stressed that Hamas would not accept any foreign military force replacing the Israeli army in Gaza.

The Hamas official stated that Israel had not achieved victory in its war on Gaza, and that the Palestinian people had not surrendered despite two years of destruction.

He also said that Hamas had recorded more than 190 Israeli violations since the ceasefire came into effect on 11 October.

Abu Marzouk noted that the parties had not yet reached the second phase of the agreement, which is expected to address the issue of weapons in Gaza.

Meanwhile, a source familiar with the matter told CNN that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump was preparing a draft resolution for the UN Security Council to deploy a multinational force in Gaza to support the ceasefire brokered by the United States.