The president of the United States plans to announce before Christmas the composition of the new Government for the Gaza Strip, in order to advance to a new phase of his peace plan, the media reported this Thursday. .
The second phase of the plan, signed in October, without the presence of Hamas and the creation of an oversight board led by Trump himself.
As pointed out to Axios According to U.S. officials, the leadership group in Gaza will be comprised of 12 to 15 Palestinians with management and business experience, not affiliated with Fatah or any other Palestinian party.
Some of the candidates currently reside in Gaza, while others lived there in the past and will return to be part of the new government.
This cabinet will be supervised by the so-called Peace Board, which Trump will chair and which will include approximately ten leaders from Arab and Western countries. The board will have an executive body in which, among others, the former British prime minister and White House advisers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will participate.
Who and how
According to the same medium, the Israeli Prime Minister, , will soon travel to the United States to discuss this second phase with Trump, which also involves Israel’s withdrawal from most of the strip and the deployment of an International Stabilization Force (ISF), .
The latest version proposes the creation of an International Stabilization Force (ISF) that would secure Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt and train and collaborate with the Palestinian police. It would also work on “permanently decommissioning the weapons of non-state armed groups,” protecting civilians and monitoring humanitarian aid corridors.
According to information from the North American press, this force would be made up of some 20,000 international soldiers. A draft text released last week says the force can use “all necessary measures,” meaning force between them, to enforce its mandate. Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Egypt and Türkiye are willing to contribute troops to the FSI, he says in Axios the journalist Barak Ravid, with excellent sources in the Executives of Tel Aviv and Washington.
The first phase of the pacification plan began in October with the entry into force of the ceasefire, although since then Israeli attacks have caused the death of more than 300 Palestinians. The release of the Hamas hostages is practically complete, pending the return of the remains of a deceased hostage.
Prominent Hamas opponent murdered
In addition to the Trump Administration’s plans, the Gazan Popular Forces militias, supported by Israel and led by , have confirmed tonight the death of their leader, by whose name they identify. He was apparently shot while “trying to resolve a dispute,” but they have assured that the shots were not from the Islamic Resistance Movement, since “they are too weak.”
“With immense pride and honor, the Popular Forces mourn their heroic martyr, Yaser Abu Shabab, founder of the Popular Forces in the Gaza Strip,” reads the statement released by the militias on their Facebook account, thus confirming his death after “being shot while, as was his custom, trying to resolve a dispute” between members of a family.
Gazan militiaman Yaser Abu Shabab, in a video capture.
Likewise, they have declared that “the misleading information” that Hamas is responsible for his death is not true, since they are “too weak to harm the commander in chief.”
The group, supported by Israel, has maintained multiple confrontations in recent months with those in power in Gaza since 2007, and, after the death of its leader, has committed to “continue on the same path until the last terrorist is eliminated from the soil of Gaza and a bright and secure future is built for our people, who believe in peace.”
Given the information of his death, Hamas has published a statement on its website in which it has described as “inevitable” the end of the “traitor” Abu Shabab who, they have considered, “betrays his people and his homeland and is content to be instruments of the occupation.” “The criminal acts committed by the so-called Yaser Abu Shabab and his gang represented a flagrant breakdown of the national and social order,” he added.
Abu Shabab, 32 years old and born in Rafah, in the south of the Palestinian enclave, was convicted at the time by Hamas authorities in Gaza for drug trafficking but managed to escape from prison at some point at the beginning of the Gaza war, according to a profile on the portal. .
