The meeting will resume in Cairo on Thursday.

The meeting aims to outline the working mechanism for a committee to manage border crossing points and address issues related to health, relief, shelter, social development, and education, according to sources.

Egypt has consistently stressed the significance of Palestinian unity, stating that any resolution to the Palestinian cause should build on the unity of Palestinian territories and comply with relevant international resolutions.

Additionally, Cairo is actively engaging with various parties to end the Israeli war in Gaza, pursue a ceasefire, facilitate a prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel, and halt Israel's illegal aggressive actions in the West Bank.

Cairo’s meeting marks the first discussions in months since talks in Beijing in July, where both groups agreed on forming a unity government.

A Hamas delegation, led by Khalil Al-Hayya, the group's chief negotiator, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to engage in further unity talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, a Hamas official told Reuters.

Fatah has agreed to an Egyptian proposal to form a committee to oversee the Gaza Strip, tasked with managing key operations such as the Rafah crossing, providing humanitarian aid, organizing daily civilian affairs, and facilitating reconstruction efforts, sources told Al-Sharq News channel.

“We evaluated various proposals from different parties and determined that the Egyptian proposal was the most appropriate. It outlines the creation of a community committee to support the strip,” a senior Fatah official said. This will be established through a decree by President Abbas and will function as “an arm of the Palestinian government” in the region, he explained to the Saudi news outlet.

He added that there were proposals to establish a local committee to govern Gaza independently of the Palestinian Authority, along with one to create an Arab-American-Israeli administration and another for an American-Israeli-Palestinian administration, stating that “all of these are unacceptable.”

For its part, Hamas will propose forming a technocratic government during the Cairo talks to handle the necessary tasks instead of establishing the committee, Al-Sharq reported.

“We prefer the formation of a technocratic government of independents, established by a presidential decree to emphasize the unity of the Palestinian territories and the political system and to reject the Israeli effort to separate the Gaza Strip from the West Bank,” a Hamas official told the channel.

However, Al-Sharq cited other sources in Hamas stating that the movement will not oppose the formation of the committee if the Egyptian side and Fatah insist on it, as Hamas supports any Palestinian and Arab efforts to provide relief to the people of Gaza and meet their needs.

Meanwhile, Fatah and Hamas have already agreed to establish a committee to govern the Gaza Strip, and the Cairo meeting focused on the composition and activities of this committee, according to Sky News Arabia.

The issue of the post-war Gaza administration remains a contentious topic, with both factions asserting it is an internal matter and rejecting any Israeli conditions.

Israel has stated it will not accept any role for Hamas in post-war Gaza, expressing distrust in the Abbas-led Palestinian authority to manage the situation effectively.

Since the onset of the Israeli war on the strip on 7 October 2023, the death toll in Gaza has reached at least 41,909, according to the Palestinian health ministry.