Overview

• Middle East Eye, citing the Times of Israel, reports that Trump authorized Blair to rally regional backing, including from Saudi Arabia, for a post-war governance plan.
• The proposal outlines a Gaza International Transitional Authority to oversee the Strip temporarily before transferring control contingent on Palestinian Authority reforms.
• The plan envisions a board of seven to ten members, mostly non-Palestinian, with at least one Palestinian representative, and protection by an Executive Protection Unit drawn from Arab and international contributors.
• The document refers to disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration of Hamas and asserts the approach would not involve mass displacement of Gazans, according to the reporting.
• Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich called Gaza a “real estate bonanza” and said plans were on Trump’s desk, while Blair’s office declined to comment on the record.