(Aug. 27, 2026 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
The Board of Peace\u2019s public face blamed both Israel and Hamas for stalled peace efforts in Gaza in an appearance at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Nickolay Mladenov, the U.S.-backed board\u2019s high representative for Gaza, told the council during a briefing on the Israeli-Palestinian file that \u201cceasefires that deliver nothing visible are not sustained by patience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are only exhausted by it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mladenov said that Hamas and other Gazan terror groups agreed to give up their arms and yield power to a new Palestinian governing authority, but he also decried Hamas for not living up to its commitments to disarm, based on a \u201croadmap\u201d to peace to which Israel and Hamas agreed, at least in principle.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery weapon carried, every tunnel still worked on and every convoy still obstructed, sets the process back,\u201d Mladenov said. \u201cIt will be Palestinian civilians, women and children, who will bear the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jerusalem did not emerge unscathed. He denounced Israel for continued military action in Gazan territory and for failing to use the deconfliction mechanism in place to address imminent threats.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill another strike on a munitions depot stop Hamas from rearming or tightening its grip on Gaza?\u201d Mladenov asked rhetorically. \u201cIt will not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Hamas will not disarm based on the provisions of the roadmap alone. That would appear to mean Israel wouldn\u2019t need to withdraw security forces, in a phased manner, from the Strip.<\/p>\n
Mladenov said on Wednesday that Israel is not being asked to do anything beyond what it already obligated itself to do when it agreed to U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s 20-point peace plan last September.<\/p>\n
Mladenov appeared to be most critical of issues related to shelter for Gazans.<\/p>\n
\u201cWinter is around the corner, and Israel\u2019s present policy on quality shelter is not acceptable,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Board of Peace urges the state of Israel to allow better shelter into the Strip for dignity, for health and for safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Disarmament must come first\u2019<\/p>\n
While Mladenov was looking ahead on the calendar, Israel\u2019s representative looked back in time.<\/p>\n
Noa Furman, who recently returned as Israel\u2019s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, addressed the council for the first time in about five years.<\/p>\n
The last time she was in the chamber, she said that she warned about Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions, advanced missile production and support for terror proxies throughout the Middle East, as well as Hezbollah\u2019s growing presence in southern Lebanon. She told the global body at the time that the threats wouldn\u2019t disappear just because the global community opted to direct its attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n
She said on Wednesday that the United Nations must not repeat the same mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe plan cannot succeed while Hamas remains armed. Disarmament must come first,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Food entering the Strip is beyond humanitarian requirements established by the United Nations, and Israel has formed a working group with the Board of Peace to improve humanitarian conditions, Furman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAid alone is no substitute for what must ultimately be done,\u201d she said. \u201cHamas and other terrorist organizations must be disarmed so that Gazans can rebuild their lives and have a future free from its control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furman also disputed the way that the United Nations characterized Israel\u2019s seizure this week of the Qalandiya Vocational Training Institute, which was the final remaining facility run in Jerusalem by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, which Israel banned.<\/p>\n
Furman \u201cpersonally participated in meetings\u201d with then-UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini in 2022 and 2023, she said, \u201cto seek an arrangement that would allow a school to be built on the site\u201d to serve Arab students.<\/p>\n
She said that UNRWA rejected the request \u201camid political pressure from local employees opposed to cooperation with Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jerusalem municipal authorities are building a school there in time for the new educational year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is shameful that the U.N. put political considerations ahead of the educational and humanitarian needs of Kfar Aqab\u2019s children,\u201d Furman said, of the neighborhood where the compound sits.<\/p>\n
Mike Waltz, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, took one of the council\u2019s civil society briefers, Athena Rayburn of the Association of International Development Agencies, to task for failing to mention Hamas\u2019s violent tactics against its own people while critiquing the Board of Peace\u2019s framework.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s sum this up. Last fall: war, hostages, suffering. And now, less than a year later, after the passage\u201d of the Security Council resolution forming the Board of Peace, \u201cthere are no hostages in Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAid, by the U.N.\u2019s own figures and report, are reaching those in need,\u201d Waltz said. \u201cNot enough but far more than it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHamas has agreed to disarm in full. The IDF is pulling back,\u201d and the board\u2019s Palestinian technocratic transitional governing authority \u201cis authorized to move in,\u201d Waltz said. He urged the council \u201cto put politics and agendas aside\u201d and \u201csupport this new way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 27, 2026 \/ JNS) The Board of Peace\u2019s public face blamed both Israel and Hamas for stalled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-597828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597828","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=597828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}