{"id":242079,"date":"2026-01-16T23:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/242079\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:18:06","slug":"trump-names-tony-blair-jared-kushner-to-gaza-board-of-peace-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/242079\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names Tony Blair, Jared Kushner to Gaza \u2018Board of Peace\u2019 | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has named former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his so-called \u201cBoard of Peace<\/a>\u201c, which is expected to oversee the United States president\u2019s 20-point plan to end Israel\u2019s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The White House said on Friday that Blair would be among the board\u2019s founding executive members, alongside Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the US special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n

The other members are Marc Rowan, the CEO of Apollo Global Management; World Bank Group President Ajay Banga, and Robert Gabriel, a US deputy national security adviser.<\/p>\n

The board members \u201cwill oversee a defined portfolio critical to Gaza\u2019s stabilization and long-term success\u201d, the White House said, including \u201cgovernance capacity-building, regional relations, reconstruction, investment attraction, large-scale funding, and capital mobilization\u201d.<\/p>\n

The announcement comes just days after Witkoff announced<\/a> the launch of the second phase of the US-brokered plan to end Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, which has killed more than 71,000 Palestinians since October 2023.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has said Trump\u2019s plan is \u201cmoving from ceasefire to demilitarization, technocratic governance, and reconstruction\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Palestinians have questioned what that will mean in practice, as Israel continues to carry out deadly attacks across the coastal enclave<\/a> and restrict deliveries of humanitarian aid, in violation of the US-brokered ceasefire deal that came into effect in October.<\/p>\n

A 10-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy and an elderly woman were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza on Friday, as members of a planned Palestinian technocratic committee sat down for the first time in Cairo to prepare for the rollout of phase two<\/a> of Trump\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n

In Friday\u2019s statement, the White House confirmed that Ali Sha\u2019ath would lead the technocratic committee, which is expected to handle day-to-day governance in Gaza in lieu of Hamas.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian group had previously said it was ready to abandon its governing duties in the enclave as outlined under the Trump plan.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response from Hamas and other Palestinian political factions to the makeup of the Board of Peace\u2019s executive board.<\/p>\n

The participation of Blair, who served as British prime minister from 1997 to 2007, has been a major point of contention, after his name was floated as a possible candidate<\/a> months ago.<\/p>\n

The former UK Labour Party leader strongly supported the US-led \u201cWar on Terror\u201d in the early 2000s, and joined then-US President George W Bush\u2019s 2003 invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n

Kushner, Trump\u2019s son-in-law and another newly-named executive board member, is also a staunch supporter of Israel who previously suggested that Palestinians are incapable of self-governance.<\/p>\n

Kushner\u2019s family also has strong ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Kushner underscored that Gaza has \u201cvery valuable\u201d waterfront property, saying that Israel should \u201cmove the people out and then clean it up\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has named former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his so-called \u201cBoard of Peace\u201c, which is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,46,44,47,43,48,40,38,41,39,1032,1156],"class_list":["post-242079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242079","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=242079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}