Board of Peace Meetings Held in Cyprus as Mediators Push to Get Gaza Out of Regional Backseat

Gaza’s Fate Hangs in the Balance in a Crucial Three-Day Meeting in Cyprus

by Thomas S. Warrick  June 2026      Credit: REUTERS The fate of 2.1 million people in Gaza hangs in the balance this week as key officials working for the Board of Peace meet in Cyprus starting Tuesday for three days to decide how to jump-start President Trump’s stalled twenty-point plan. Despite pledges of $17 billion and behind-the-scenes planning done by a small team...

Board of Peace meetings held in Cyprus as mediators push to get Gaza out of regional backseat

Despite being billed as a “reset” to the Gaza peace process, no major shifts emerged from the Board of Peace meetings convened in Cyprus last week. But the gathering in Larnaca — which brought together board officials and Gaza’s new technocratic governing committee, as well as representatives of the Tony Blair Institute — comes as mediators make a push to maintain momentum in the faltering process to convert Gaza’s tenuous truce into a more last…