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ARCHIVE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a press conference with US President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Photo: Alex Brandon/AP/dpa
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Israel is angry about the White House's appointment of an important international oversight body for the Gaza Strip. "The announcement regarding the composition of the so-called "Gaza Executive Board", which is subordinate to the "Peace Council", was "not coordinated with Israel and contradicts its policy", according to a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has instructed Foreign Minister Gideon Saar to contact his US counterpart Marco Rubio on this matter.
Netanyahu is obviously offended by the fact that Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and senior Qatari diplomat Ali Thawadi are members of the committee. Turkey and Qatar had sharply criticized Israel's war in the Gaza Strip against the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas. Technically, the Gaza Executive Council and another executive committee are subordinate to the "Peace Council", which is made up of leading politicians from around the world and will be chaired by Trump. However, the executive bodies will be more directly involved in overseeing the post-war administration in Gaza.
The "peace council" is part of the second phase of Trump's peace plan for Gaza, which calls for a permanent end to the war and the disarmament of the terrorist organization Hamas, which it rejects. The international body is to oversee the new transitional government, consisting of Palestinian technocrats, of the coastal strip, which was largely destroyed in the war. According to Trump's own statements on Friday, several heads of state and government have been invited to participate in this "peace council". Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was among those who received an invitation.
18.01.2026, 00:38
