Overview
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar in Washington on Dec. 10 to discuss the Phase 2 transition.
- Israeli media reported that President Trump is expected to outline Phase 2 by the end of December, possibly tied to his Dec. 29 meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Trump said he will name members of an international Peace Council to oversee interim governance in Gaza in the early part of next year.
- The proposed second stage calls for disarming Hamas and establishing a new interim governing arrangement in the territory.
- Despite a ceasefire in place since October, Israeli military actions continued in Gaza, with a Palestinian agency reporting three people, including a child, shot dead in the north on Dec. 10.