US EditionTrump would head Gaza ‘board of peace’ in new postwar plan
The plan calls for a ceasefire, hostage release within 72 hours, Gaza demilitarization, and a transitional technocratic Palestinian governance board led by Trump and Blair, backed by Arab states.
- On Monday, President Donald J. Trump unveiled a 20-point plan to end the Gaza Strip war, calling for an immediate ceasefire and hostages returned within 72 hours of Israeli acceptance.
- Proposal links demilitarising Gaza and redevelopment by seeking to remove Hamas and pair aid with the January 19, 2025 humanitarian agreement and international investors.
- The `Board of Peace` would be chaired by President Donald J. Trump and include Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, while a technocratic Palestinian committee manages day-to-day services and the International Stabilization Force trains vetted Palestinian police with Jordan and Egypt.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the plan and warned Israel could act alone with United States backing if Hamas rejects it; aid and operations would continue in areas handed to the ISF from the IDF.
- Hamas says it has not received a written proposal and is still studying it, while Saudi Arabia and Egypt express wariness and critics call the plan a `colonial blueprint` after more than 65,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Tony Blair: former UK premier central to Trump’s Gaza plan
LONDON: Tony Blair, Britain’s former prime minister whose legacy was heavily tarnished by the 2003 war in Iraq, has long been a contentious figure in the Middle East and beyond. His potentially leading role in Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza will likely do little to change that. Blair, 72, who is set to sit on the board of a proposed international transitional authority in
Tony Blair’s long experience in the Middle East is both his strength and his weakness
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has returned to the forefront of Middle East peace efforts after a U.S. peace plan on ending the Israel-Hamas war cast him in a leading role in overseeing the post-war administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu agrees to Trump’s new Gaza peace plan
What happenedPresident Donald Trump Monday released a 20-point plan to end Israel’s war in Gaza, following a two-hour White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who backed the proposal. Under the plan, Israel would halt its attacks and withdraw in stages as Hamas released all Israeli hostages, disarmed and gave up any governing role in the Palestinian enclave. Gaza would be run by apolitical Palestinian technocrats overs…
Alongside Donald Trump, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should also be part of the so-called "Peace Council" for Gaza, which the US president wants to establish. Blair has extensive experience in the Middle East as an envoy and consultant, but his role in the Iraq war also has a controversial reputation as a wartime prime minister.
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