Item 1 of 2 Displaced Palestinians shelter at a tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 14, 2026. REUTERS\/Haseeb Alwazeer<\/p>\n
[1\/2]Displaced Palestinians shelter at a tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 14, 2026. REUTERS\/Haseeb Alwazeer Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab<\/a>US announced launch of second phase of ceasefire on WednesdayPanel of Palestinian technocrats named to lead post-war Gaza, US saysCeasefire began in October but remains very fragileHundreds of Palestinians, 3 Israeli soldiers reported killed since truce beganWASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> said on Thursday he was backing the newly appointed “Palestinian Technocratic Government” in Gaza<\/a> where Washington has announced the launch of a second phase<\/a> in a ceasefire<\/a> that went into effect in October but remains fragile.<\/p>\n “I am backing a newly appointed Palestinian Technocratic Government, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, supported by the Board’s High Representative, to govern Gaza during its transition,” Trump said on social media.<\/p>\n Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas signed off in October on Trump’s plan, which says the Palestinian technocratic body will be overseen by an international so-called “Board of Peace” that is meant to supervise Gaza’s governance for a transitional period.<\/p>\n In another post, Trump said the “Board of Peace,” of which Trump himself is the chair, was formed and its members would be announced shortly.<\/p>\n Israel and Hamas have accused each other of ceasefire violations in Gaza where since the start of the truce in October over 440 Palestinians, including more than 100 children<\/a>, and three Israeli soldiers have been reported killed.<\/p>\n The ceasefire has also been tested by the failure to retrieve the remains of one last Israeli hostage, Israeli delays in reopening Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt, and Hamas’ refusal so far to disarm.<\/p>\n By pressing on with the second phase of the ceasefire, Washington and its mediator partners will need to tackle the vexing challenges of disarming Hamas, further Israeli withdrawal tied to the disarmament and deploying an international peacekeeping force.<\/p>\n The Palestinian technocratic body will have 15 members and will be led by Ali Shaath, a former deputy minister in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority who had been in charge of developing industrial zones, according to a statement by mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey.<\/p>\n “These Palestinian leaders are unwaveringly committed to a PEACEFUL future,” Trump said. Many experts say Trump being chair of the board meant to supervise Gaza’s governance resembled, opens new tab<\/a> a colonial structure.<\/p>\n He also said Egypt, Qatar and Turkey will help to secure what he called a “comprehensive demilitarization agreement” with Hamas.<\/p>\n Israel’s assault on Gaza since late 2023 has killed<\/a> tens of thousands, caused a hunger crisis<\/a> and internally displaced<\/a> Gaza’s entire population. Multiple rights experts<\/a>, scholars and a U.N. inquiry<\/a> say it amounts to genocide. Israel has said it took action in self-defense<\/a> after Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people and took over 250 hostages in their 2023 attack.<\/p>\n Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Christian Martinez; Editing by Himani Sarkar, Humeyra Pamuk and Stephen Coates<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Kanishka Singh is a breaking news reporter for Reuters in Washington DC, who primarily covers US politics and national affairs in his current role. His past breaking news coverage has spanned across a range of topics like the Black Lives Matter movement; the US elections; the 2021 Capitol riots and their follow up probes; the Brexit deal; US-China trade tensions; the NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan; the COVID-19 pandemic; and a 2019 Supreme Court verdict on a religious dispute site in his native India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Item 1 of 2 Displaced Palestinians shelter at a tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115594,337,115601,115587,117020,115917,115911,120765,115910,115635,116883,28135,115603,10185,85,46,117018,115600,43,115589,120766,115915,115637,115590,83284,117019,117016,117015,115591,117017,208,74513],"class_list":["post-241120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-amers","tag-asia","tag-asxpac","tag-cwp","tag-destmetop","tag-destocatpm","tag-destousdnm","tag-destouspom","tag-destoustpm","tag-destouswdm","tag-dip","tag-emea","tag-emrg","tag-gen","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-meast","tag-namer","tag-news","tag-news1","tag-packageus-politics","tag-packageus-top-news","tag-packageworld-news","tag-pol","tag-potus","tag-ps","tag-rulesisrael-palestinians","tag-rulestrump","tag-secur","tag-swasia","tag-us","tag-wash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}