Overview
- the White House released an initial roster that includes Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former UK prime minister Tony Blair, envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, alongside a seven-member founding executive board featuring World Bank president Ajay Banga, Apollo’s Marc Rowan and adviser Robert Gabriel.
- the administration named former UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov as High Representative for Gaza and appointed Major General Jasper Jeffers to lead the proposed international stabilization force.
- president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Javier Milei, President Abdel Fattah al‑Sissi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney were invited to join; Milei publicly welcomed the offer, Turkey confirmed receipt, Egypt said it is reviewing it and a Carney adviser signaled intent to accept.
- the council is tasked with supervising phase two of the plan, which calls for Hamas’s disarmament, a phased Israeli troop withdrawal and the training and deployment of security forces, as well as oversight of a 15-member temporary technocratic Palestinian committee.
- human-rights advocates and Palestinian figures criticized the council’s makeup and the absence of named Palestinian members, while reports from Gaza noted fresh ceasefire-violation accusations and at least seven deaths reported by Gaza Civil Defense.