Overview
- President Donald Trump named a seven-member founding executive board that includes Marco Rubio, Tony Blair, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Ajay Banga, Marc Rowan and Robert Gabriel.
- The plan tasks the council with overseeing Hamas disarmament, a phased Israeli withdrawal and deployment of an international stabilization force under UN Security Council resolution 2803.
- Nickolay Mladenov was appointed High Representative for Gaza and Major General Jasper Jeffers was tapped to lead the stabilization force.
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Javier Milei and Abdel Fattah al-Sissi were invited to join, with Milei calling the invitation an honor, and an adviser saying Canadian leader Mark Carney intends to accept.
- Israel said the move was not coordinated and contradicts its policy, Palestinian factions condemned the project as colonial, Tony Blair publicly accepted and praised Trump, and no Palestinians were on the published membership list while the White House has not clarified where invited leaders would sit.