Overview
- President Trump will chair the oversight council and the White House listed founding members including Tony Blair, Marco Rubio, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Marc Rowan, Ajay Banga and Robert Gabriel.
- Nikolaj Mladenow was appointed High Representative to liaise with the Palestinian transitional administration, and Major General Jasper Jeffers was named to lead the planned International Stabilization Force.
- A 14-member technocratic Palestinian government led by Ali Shaath convened in Cairo to begin coordinating day-to-day administration and reconstruction planning.
- Israel formally protested the Gaza Executive Board’s composition, citing the inclusion of Turkey’s Hakan Fidan and Qatar’s Ali Al‑Thawadi, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his foreign minister to raise the issue with Marco Rubio.
- Germany signaled readiness to participate but received no initial seat, and countries are still being recruited for the stabilization force as disarmament remains the central sticking point.