Item 1 of 3 Palestinians move past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during the war, in Gaza City, January 16, 2026. REUTERS\/Dawoud Abu Alkas<\/p>\n
[1\/3]<\/b>Palestinians move past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during the war, in Gaza City, January 16, 2026. REUTERS\/Dawoud Abu Alkas Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) – The White House on Friday announced some members of a so-called “Board of Peace”<\/a> that is to supervise the temporary governance of Gaza,<\/a> which has been under a fragile ceasefire<\/a> since October.The names include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump’s<\/a> special envoy Steve Witkoff, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Trump is the chair of the board, according to a plan his White House unveiled in October.<\/p>\n Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas signed off on Trump’s plan, which says a Palestinian technocratic body will be overseen by the international board, which will supervise Gaza’s governance for a transitional period.<\/p>\n Many rights experts and advocates have said that Trump overseeing a board to supervise a foreign territory’s governance resembled a colonial<\/a> structure, while Blair’s involvement<\/a> was criticized last year due to his role in the Iraq war and the history of British imperialism in the Middle East.<\/p>\n The White House did not detail the responsibilities of each member of the “founding Executive board.” The names do not include any Palestinians. The White House said more members will be announced over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n The board will also include private equity executive and billionaire Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga and Robert Gabriel, a Trump adviser, the White House said, adding that Nickolay Mladenov, a former U.N. Middle East envoy, will be the high representative for Gaza.<\/p>\n Army Major General Jasper Jeffers, a U.S. special operations commander, was appointed commander of the International Stabilization Force, the White House said. A U.N. Security Council resolution,<\/a> adopted in mid-November, authorized the board and countries working with it to establish that force in Gaza.<\/p>\n The White House also named an 11-member “Gaza Executive Board” that will include Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Sigrid Kaag, the United Arab Emirates minister for international cooperation, Reem Al-Hashimy, and Israeli-Cypriot billionaire Yakir Gabay, along with some members of the executive board.<\/p>\n This additional board will support Mladenov’s office and the Palestinian technocratic body, whose details were announced this week, the White House said.<\/p>\n Israel and Hamas have accused each other of ceasefire violations in Gaza, where more than 450 Palestinians, including over 100 children,<\/a> and three Israeli soldiers have been reported killed during the truce.Israel’s assault on Gaza since October 2023 has killed tens of thousands,<\/a> caused a hunger crisis and internally displaced<\/a> Gaza’s entire population. Multiple rights experts,<\/a> scholars and a U.N. inquiry<\/a> say this amounts to genocide. Israel has said it took action in self-defense<\/a> after Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people and took over 250 hostages in a late 2023 attack.<\/p>\n Reporting by Kanishka Singh, Bhargav Acharya and Ryan Patrick Jones; Editing by Sergio Non and Aurora Ellis<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Item 1 of 3 Palestinians move past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during the war, in Gaza…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":522363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[216147,3774,216161,216193,216397,216141,217313,216152,216153,216154,165853,55855,103001,216150,1257,67458,101727,165856,5386,59960,216399,216400,127860,217311,216149,50,216143,216155,216156,216401,165860,33106,217312,216402,217309,216140,216145,217310,216158,216157,68,131,83854,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-522362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-amers","9":"tag-asia","10":"tag-asxpac","11":"tag-bisv","12":"tag-cen","13":"tag-cwp","14":"tag-destmetop","15":"tag-destocatpm","16":"tag-destoustpm","17":"tag-destouswdm","18":"tag-dip","19":"tag-eco","20":"tag-emea","21":"tag-emrg","22":"tag-fed","23":"tag-fin","24":"tag-fins","25":"tag-gen","26":"tag-il","27":"tag-int","28":"tag-invbis","29":"tag-invm","30":"tag-mce","31":"tag-meast","32":"tag-namer","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-news1","35":"tag-packageus-top-news","36":"tag-packageworld-news","37":"tag-plcy","38":"tag-pol","39":"tag-potus","40":"tag-ps","41":"tag-pve","42":"tag-rulesisrael-palestinians","43":"tag-rulestrump","44":"tag-secur","45":"tag-swasia","46":"tag-topcmb","47":"tag-topnws","48":"tag-us","49":"tag-war","50":"tag-wash","51":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115909554630274106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n