US Edition'What Will Trump and Board of Peace Do to Empower Palestinian Technocratic Committee?'
The 15-member committee will manage Gaza’s civil services during transition, aiming to weaken Hamas’s control, under international oversight called the 'Board of Peace.'
- Wednesday, Palestinian factions are meeting in Cairo to finalize a 15-member technocratic committee to temporarily govern Gaza, while U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to formally unveil the lineup.
- American officials say the move is part of a U.S.-backed Phase Two plan meant to move from ceasefire toward demilitarization, technocratic governance and reconstruction under a transitional `Board of Peace`.
- Reported appointments include technocrats from the PA and civil society such as Ali Shaath, committee chairman, Bashir Al-Rais , Osama Hassan Al-Saadawi , Samira Halas , Sami Ali Nasman, Omar Shamali, and Aed Yaghi.
- Officials caution the committee will not act immediately because Hamas retains armed battalions and operations start only after defining internal structure, while Israel and U.S. officials bar reconstruction in Hamas-controlled areas.
- Affecting about 2 million people, the committee would manage services amid rubble, with donor countries expected to fund activities and Nickolay Mladenov overseeing after meetings with Benjamin Netanyahu.
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'What will Trump and Board of Peace do to empower Palestinian technocratic committee?'
The announcement of the ceasefire's second phase marked a significant step forward but left many questions unanswered. Those include the makeup of a proposed, apolitical governing committee of Palestinian experts and an international “Board of Peace." For in-depth analysis and deeper perspective, Nadia Massih welcomes Yezid Sayigh, Senior Fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. He challenges the Board of Peace to 'pu…
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Panel will not begin work immediately and must first set its structure, while Hamas is demanding that administrative bodies it created after taking control in 2007 remain in place, a demand rejected by others
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