Tel Aviv, Oct. 24 -- Calling the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) a "subsidiary of Hamas", US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday categorically said that "Hamas cannot be involved in governing the future of Gaza."

The top US official said this while addressing a press conference at the US Civil-Military Coordination Centre in Israel's Kiryat Gat.

"Here's a lot of work to be done here and there's going to be some impediments along the way and things of this nature that people put out there. Suffice it to say that everyone that signed onto this plan, all of these other countries agreed and everyone agreed that Hamas cannot govern and cannot be involved in governing the future of Gaza. Everyone's a...