The United States announced this Friday that an Executive Board will oversee the new Government of Gaza and will be formed, among others, by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; White House emissary Steve Witkoff; and Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump.
The list is completed by Marc Rowan, director of Apollo Global Management; Roberto Gabriel, Trump advisor; and Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank.
According to the White House, each member of this Executive Board will take on specific portfolios, including “strengthening governance capacity, regional relations, reconstruction, attracting investment, obtaining large-scale financing and mobilizing capital.”
It was also announced that the high representative for Gaza will be the Bulgarian Nickolay Mladenov, who was his country’s Foreign Minister and UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
Likewise, it was indicated that Jasper Jeffers, who is a US Army special operations commander, will head the International Stabilization Force (ISF), the UN contingent that must guarantee the future security and demilitarization of Gaza, as stipulated in Trump’s peace plan.
The announcement of the composition of the Executive Board comes after this week the White House announced phase two of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, which involves the formation of a government of technocrats in the Strip and the disarmament of Hamas.
The names announced will be in charge of executing the plans of the Peace Board, a commission chaired by Trump himself that monitors the application of the plan for the enclave.
The Board will also oversee the new Gaza Government, known as the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, which will be made up of 15 members and led by engineer Ali Shaaz.
The first phase of the peace plan, which began in October, involved a ceasefire, the release of all hostages and the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave, although since then hundreds of Palestinians have died from Israeli attacks.
This second phase contemplates the formation of a new Government in the enclave, which must be made up of Palestinians who are not active in Hamas, an Islamist group that must be disarmed, according to US stipulations.
