Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a request from U.S. President Donald Trump to participate in the political bureau set to manage the Gaza Strip in the upcoming phase of the ceasefire, a framework known as the “Board of Peace.”
According to Washington, the body is meant to oversee “governance capacity-building, regional relations, reconstruction, investment attraction, large-scale funding, and capital mobilization” in the Palestinean enclave.
Current board members include the UAE, Morocco, Vietnam, Belarus, Hungary, Kazakhstan, and Argentina. Other invitees, such as the United Kingdom and the European Commission, have not yet formally responded.
Tel Aviv’s regime addition to the mix comes as the International Criminal Court has an open arrest warrant against Netanyahu on the charges of “the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.”
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says there will be no place for Turkish or Qatari soldiers in Gaza, days after he and other Israeli ministers rejected a US-led “board of peace” to oversee post-war governance of the besieged enclave. pic.twitter.com/o1Eq1144fl
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The White House also announced the members of another board, the Gaza Executive Board, which, according to the ceasefire, will be in charge of implementing the tough second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The Executive board’s members include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga, and Trump’s deputy national security adviser, Robert Gabriel.
Media have reported that Trump intends to sign the charter of the Board of Peace on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he is expected to deliver a speech later on Wednesday.